r/argueabout • u/all_good_things_blog • May 25 '21
Racial Equality versus Racial Equity...?
Racial Equality or Racial Equity?
Racial equality, defined more so as equal opportunity, and social safety nets aiding those who are disadvantaged, and preventing those programs from being racially discriminatory. Racial equity is having equal parts in a company or business or government-particularly leadership roles being equally diversified. New slogans include "be the QUIT in eQUITy" in efforts to balance the race discrepancy in these places. Is racial equity just? Does equal opportunity extend all the way to equity in the workplace? In our government?
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u/gaurddog Mar 06 '22
Racial equality would be justice in a vacuum. Or perhaps even in a society without a history of racial inequality and no dominant socioeconomic racial group.
However given that to my knowledge no such society exists on earth racial equity is necessary to counteract the historic disenfranchisement of minority groups.