A good quick definition of "equity," in the legal sense of what activists want, would be "treating people/groups as differently as is needed to achieve equal outcomes."
(2) The problem, again, is the Sowell-less assumption that all group gaps must be due to current or past bias. This often makes no sense. Hispanic immigrants don't earn less than Black or Appalachian folks because they suffered more here historically. Same for whites v Asians.
(3) For that matter, for both poor Black AND white communities, many of the most serious problems - fatherlessness, hyper-high crime - date to 1960s welfare culture rather than to the deep past, and are unlikely to be solved by offering more unearned money or college slots today.
(4) We ~all favor helping those who are actually suffering. But, assigning different civil rights to large, income-diverse groups based on how badly they currently seem to be doing is an...iffy way to do that. Even UBI or reparations would make far more sense - as would EQUALITY.
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