Tuesday, February 16, 2021

All Things Being Equal...

 When discussing the exodus of peoples from communist regimes such as Cuba’s, it is common practice to describe their escape as a flight from oppression, or a search for freedom. These labels are evocative and correct, but in order to deepen our understanding of the root causes for this migration it is also helpful to think of it as a flight from equality. [More]

Don't tell me. Tell this ingrate.

And yeah, there's Opposite Day "progressive equality" and there's the real thing.

[Via Agustin B]

1 comment:

DDS said...

“I do not at all wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries, that what used to be called the ‘submerged tenth’ can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their level…” — Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 13 June 1948.

https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/socialism-is-the-philosophy-of-failure-winston-churchill/