Culture
Equity Is A Dangerous Farce. Here’s Why
Around our dinner table we like to agitate each other with questions using current buzzwords, humming around popular societal topics like busy bees searching for a place to land after exhausting a topic. Popular words or phrases and their connotations are a favorite conversation starter.
By Jillian Tymoszczuk4 min read
My husband and I like to turn these words over a few times and examine them from different angles. Some words are delivered sweetly and initially taste like honey, while others strike bitter at first until we realize they are medicine and, when turned over and examined, they help us find deeper understanding of the world around us. A word that sparked a lively conversation between us recently is “equity,” followed by its associate, “equality”.