Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Equality, Diversity, Democracy

Equality means Sameness, and Diversity means Difference.  So the political agenda that promotes both Equality and Diversity involves an internal incoherence.  One example of an unsatisfactory resolution of that incoherence is 'ethnic' fast food, which is only very superficially 'diverse'.  Another is separate-but-equal segregation.  But, even if some satisfactory formula of integration is seized upon, the achievent of mere Co-Existence is inadequate to the We principle of Democracy, which entails active togetherness.

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