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An equal right to be unequal

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My short piece in today's American Thinker
By Oleg Atbashian


Today I came across this quote:

"Freedom is the right to inequality."
—Nikolai Berdyaev, a Russian Christian philosopher (1874–1948)

The quote was accompanied by an anonymous comment in Russian, which I'd like to translate here. It pretty much echoes my own thoughts, laid out in Shakedown Socialism.

People, by their nature, are not uniform. We are all different, and immediate equality among us can only be achieved by forcibly bringing us to the lowest common denominator.
  • Equality between the rich and the poor can only be achieved by confiscating the riches.
  • Equality between the strong and the weak can only be achieved by emasculating the strong.
  • Equality between the smart and the stupid can only be achieved by casting intelligence as a defect.

Thus, a fully equitable society would be a society of the poor, the weak, and the stupid, held together by force.

Let's not forget that the word "equality," coming from a leftist, implies, first and foremost, material or economic equality. It is not the same as "equal rights," but that distinction is never mentioned, as leftists thrive on this confusion in terms. If you accept equal rights, they want you also to automatically accept equal outcomes. On the flip-side, they want you to believe that those who repudiate the idea of equal outcomes also hate the idea of equal rights.

Now, how about an equal right to be unequal?

This conundrum explains why all leftist experiments, starting with the French Revolution, end up in self-destruction: their slogan "freedom and equality" is an oxymoron made of mutually exclusive propositions. Forced economic equality destroys freedom to make life choices, and freedom to make life choices destroys economic equality.

Attempts to reconcile freedom and equality by brute force destroy both freedom and equality, leaving such a society with nothing but the brute force of ruling elites.

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While we're on this subject...

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And the ultimate mascot of equity and equality, the People's Cube!

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Breaking the wings of our flying citizens is not sufficient. To prevent them growing new wings, I propose to guillotine them and then carry their heads on spikes, dancing through the streets. For the common good, of course.

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It's simply a matter of standards. We all know some people are more Equal™ than others and those more Equal™ than the un-washed masses are empowered to inform us all how Equal™ we must all be.

Equality™ of the sexes has led to the elimination of the sexes and interestingly, apparent elimination of sex: the birth rate in Western societies is way below replacement rate.

Equality™ of Wealth™ has led to the destruction of wealth - in the form of runaway inflation - and the importation of poverty for all (except for the more Equal) in the form of Undocumented™, infected, Immigrants™.

Equality™ of Health™ has led to health care being incredibly difficult to afford, obtain or maintain.

Equality™ of Education™ has led to the elimination of education and replaced it with Party™ approved doctrine.

We have indeed become moor stuped, moor week and moor pour. Other then that, everyfing is going well.

This is, of course, by design. The Party™ knows what it's doing.

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'pelipsky just wants the equal right to be. TheParty™ knows this, which explains why the only Jackalope a comrade actually sees, is a dead Jackalope. It's a real business, comrades, the selling of Jackalope trophies. Conflict Jackalopes are smuggled in from China to undercut the ever expanding USSA's Jackalope trophy business.

'pelipsky just want the equal right to be...it really tied the room together.

forelocktug,
'pelipsky


 
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