Every Group Must Be Equal.
By Theodore Dalrymple.
As everyone knows, or by now ought to know, the only possible explanation of differing outcomes between groups is prejudice, privilege, and oppression by those groups with more favorable outcomes. It follows that the only solution to the anomaly of differential outcomes, and the restoration of the primordial equality that is natural to mankind, is restitution, compensation, expropriation, positive discrimination, etc.
One of the most startling differentials, of course, is that between men and women. It is surely time for it to be redressed.
For example, I was reading in Le Figaro only yesterday that nearly 58 percent of deaths from Covid in France were of men, and only 42 percent of women. This only brings into sharp relief a fundamental injustice that has gone unaddressed for decades, indeed has been largely unnoticed, namely the fact that women live, on average, several years longer than men. For example, women live just over three and a half years longer in Britain than men; in the U.S., the difference is five years; in France, six; in Russia, ten. Overall in the world, men were the victims of 73 percent of fatal road accidents and 78 percent of homicides.
What is to be done about these truly shocking statistics? As we all agree, equality is one of the most precious, if not the most precious, of all political values, for there can be no justice without it.
Childbirth is safer than is was a century ago. Also, far fewer children per woman on average.
One hundred & twenty years ago, pakeha men could expect to live to 57 while women lasted until 59. The major difference between then & now is that disease (measles, smallpox, tuberculosis) were the killers rather than lifestyle (eg lung cancer) & old age (eg heart disease).
In a free society, men will not be equal.
In an equal society, men will not be free.
(Not my quote.)
I’m all for equality of the sexes ,I for example want the same deal as our horsefaced leader, $10,000 a week for doing nothing more than dozens of photo opps and virtue signaling to her International Luvvies.
And sodomites have a life expectancy 30 years less than average. Nothing to see there. The rainbow festooning every school and corporation tell us it’s all good.