[zmgsabst]

> The underlying principle of equity is a decent one though.

> For example if universities would take factors like poverty and access to educational resources into account, rather than using racial identity as a inaccurate proxy for this

That’s equality — as in “equal opportunity” and we had that before “equity” was introduced.

By contrast, equity is a fundamentally racist idea which emerged from a collectivist authoritarian view of the world which tries to fix past wrongs between purported “racial groups” by introducing present discrimination to “correct” past discrimination.