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flatpepsi17 | 1 year ago

Equality and Equity are vastly different things.

If a program treats people equally, that's a good thing. If you want equal outcomes (regardless of many very real factors), that by definition will require unequal treatment.

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ceejayoz|1 year ago

> Equality and Equity are vastly different things.

But related.

I was at a museum that had a full-sized submarine on display. There was a touchable model and audio description for blind people.

Equal, as much as possible - a Braille variant of a novel, for example, provides a fairly equal experience. Equitable, when perfect equal results are not possible. You can't fix a person's severed optic nerve, but you can certainly attempt to give them fair access to things.

pessimizer|1 year ago

This is a semantic argument. Accessibility wasn't under DEI in the org chart, and preexisted DEI. That's all that matters.