Soviet Equity

~ Clarissa

Equity is everyone deserves to have — right? — and be treated equal. But equity understands that not everybody starts out on the same base. So, if you’re giving everybody an equal amount but they’re starting out on different bases, are they really going to have the opportunity to compete and achieve?

-Kamala Harris

The whole purpose of the USSR was to give the historically disadvantaged a level playing field. For this purpose, the historically advantaged were murdered, imprisoned and expelled from the country. Well into the 1930s, every workplace had DEI-style audits where every employee had to explain their entire family tree, abjectly apologizing for every great-uncle who happened to be a priest, a doctor, or an owner of two cows and four goats. There was no visual criterion to discover who was historically advantaged, thank goodness, and that’s why many people managed to survive the DEI audits by concealing their origins. Let’s hope nobody ever comes up with the advantaged/disadvantaged scale where the advantaged oppressors can be easily identified based on how they look.

The newly equitably empowered in the USSR were incapable of producing science, running the military, or making things work. Foreign engineers were invited in droves to paper over the IQ gap. Some of the formerly advantaged high-IQ oppressors were imprisoned and forced to produce ideas and inventions in jail. Some were allowed to stay free and help run things while living in constant terror of annihilation. Look up Mikhail Tukhachevsky or Mikhail Bakhtin for some examples.

The results of that gigantic equity experiment are well known. Even the outright removal of the entire socially and economically advantaged class did not make the disadvantaged richer or happier. Today their great-grandchildren are still miserable, angry, and threatening to destroy the countries that still incomprehensibly live better.

Giving people a leg up because they started behind others has been tried and tried and tried. The most aggressive means of providing the leg up were attempted. The result is always terrible. The greatest culprit of the Soviet tragedy is the belief that it’s unfair that some people get more than others at birth. The sincere pain of the revolutionaries who were hurt by observing this inequality created one of the worst horrors humanity ever produced. That horror is still alive and bombing cities in Ukraine. The mass rape, torture and atrocities the great-grandchildren of the disadvantaged are identical to what their ancestors had unleashed on aristocrats, bankers, priests, restauranteurs, and the owners of two cows and four goats.

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  3. Thank you Cliff for bringing this to readers’ attention.

    Chris Rufo has been doing sterling work these past few years, almost wholly unaided and unheeded by mainstream conservative forces. His stalwart defence of free speech and his pioneering work exposing Wokery and Wokism especially in schools deserves to be better known and appreciated.

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      1. You should have seen how many footnotes I used for my senior thesis in college, that added an extra hour to my typing. That shows that not only does she plagiarize, she’s an idiot and the publisher was too afraid of pushback to say something whereas a mere undergrad like me could get expelled for plagiarism

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        1. The “plagiarism expert” that the NYTimes consulted for their article is of the opinion that plagiarism for black people requires “heavier burden on proof.”

          https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2024/09/19/understanding-the-darryll-pines-plagiarism-allegations/

          It’s the latest in a string of similar allegations intended to target black university officials and others who seek to increase diversity in academia.

          While that doesn’t necessarily discredit the findings, it does put a heavier burden of proof on them.

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  5. Equality was one of the greatest goals of the apartheid, specifically equality between the Anglo town people who dominated the economy since the 19th century and the much poorer Dutch speaking country people. This system relied on Anglo capital, foreign skills, and cheap black labor to subsidize government jobs for poor whites.

    The anti-apartheid movement was dominated by the aspirations of black elites who wanted equality with white elites, as opposed to Marxist notions of class struggle.

    The failure of Mugabeism is of course common knowledge, but now that we have reached the Animal Farm stage of the revolution, there seems to be increasing acceptance among the elite of the Thatcherite position that socialism lasts until you run out of other people’s money.

    https://www.ft.com/content/b4598bc0-5607-4ad8-a25f-e4f1dd260d8c

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