There’s no such thing as a free lunch, and you can’t pull yourself up by your bootstraps; but today’s policy makers pretend that you can selectively repress and oppress on the basis of race and gender without doing harm.
Like a parent who argues that they only abuse their child rarely; so they should be judged on the majority of days – Or a driver who excuses driving in the wrong direction; with the idea that he’s risking his life too:
Their irrational rationalizing declares that you can isolate the cause from the effect; just by saying it is so. And that you can defend any evil action by minimizing the victim, and stressing the self-righteousness of your excuse.
Nothing so undercuts their paper-thin pretensions of a greater good, than a comparison with those that have fought in the cause of human worth.
It’s not surprising that today’s policies, so at odds with ethical behavior; are also at odds with the lives and beliefs of every respected figure of human dignity and equality we hold as examples:
From Frederick Douglass to Martin Luther King, Jr.; and from Mother Teresa to Malcolm X: their belief was that equality was unconditional — for everyone, everywhere, and always.
You can’t follow someone in the opposite direction.
Today’s policy makers are not the inheritors that cause – they are its betrayers.