Kamala's amazing cartoon on Equity vs. Equality in mountain climbing
You owe it to yourself to watch this video.
As I wrote in Taki’s Magazine in January 2021:
Although “equity” jargon started out in pink-collar seminars, it has spread to the commanding heights of the power structure.
The day before the election, for example, Kamala Harris tweeted herself narrating in her grating voice a humiliatingly awful animation about mountain-climbing equity. After all, everybody knows that the only thing holding back blacks from winning all the mountain-climbing championships (climbers do have championships, right?) is white racism.
Yet, the artists, and perhaps the vice president as well, appear to have never gotten more than ten feet off the ground without the aid of an escalator.
You owe it to yourself to watch this video:
If you want, you can mute the vice president’s thin, braying voice-over and less painfully read her words here:
“So there’s a big difference between equality and equity. Equality suggests, ‘Oh, everyone should get the same amount.’ The problem with that—not everybody’s starting out from the same place. So, if we’re all getting the same amount but you started out back there and I started out over here…you’re still going to be that far back behind me…. It’s about giving everyone the resources and the support they need, so that everyone can be on equal footing and then compete on equal footing.”
But do watch the video: It’s wonderfully lame.
Kamala’s cartoon depicts a black mountain climber as being too stupid to follow the trail to the cliff chosen by his smarter white partner. Thus, the discriminated-against black man can’t reach the magic rope that somehow pulls the privileged white mountaineer up as if he’s riding a ski-resort towrope. (In reality, climbers use ropes for safety, not to be effortlessly winched up the incline by an invisible mechanism.) The racist rope makes the black guy sad, so he sulks.
But then, apparently, a vast Biden-Harris Administration equity initiative elevates the entire crust of the earth. Now the black climber is finally at the starting place he should have been at if only he’d imitated the white guy. In the happy ending, the black climber joins his white friend on the summit, where, side by side, they stare into the big gay sunset.
Republicans have been trained to denounce this as “Marxism,” but it’s actually Kendiism, the ideology of the enterprising capitalist/antiwhite racist Ibram X. Kendi, who has made a fortune lecturing that any racial inequality in performance is proof of inequity.
But it’s safer for whites to sputter against Marxism than to deny Kendiism. Who dares tell Professor Kendi that the main reason in 2021 that blacks tend to perform poorly on many measures is not white racism?
Therefore, Kamala sums up that “equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place.”
And yet…Kamala and Joe didn’t end up at the same place as everybody else. It’s almost as if “equity” applies to you and yours but not to the Bidens, Harrises, and Kendis.
She's as shallow as a puddle after a light rain.
We don't say Marxism, we say Cultural Marxism, which it is - they were pushing feminism, homosexuality and the race agenda from the beginning. Karl Marx' son-in-law, one of the communist leaders in France, said that he was "proud to have the blood of three oppressed races." (Jewish, Black, Indian.) And if he had to choose, he was "most proud of the Black blood." The economic Marxism was just more popular among the workers who were needed as footsoldiers, and when communists took over a country the men in charge had no use for the cultural Marxism any longer.
And Kendi is in only one country, the U.S., and not widely known even there. Basing the word on him won't fly outside the U.S., and not even in the U.S. He didn't come up with the agenda. It was developed by the Marxist Frankfurt School, but existed even before them.