Equality Archives - Granite Grok

Make-Believe Equality Is Unattainable, Costly, and Harmful

May 9, 2025 Wanjiru Njoya

In his book Intellectuals and Race, the great economist Thomas Sowell excoriates intellectuals for their role in promoting statist social engineering schemes. Sowell defined “intellectuals” as “a particular occupation—namely, people whose work begins and ends with ideas. It is an occupational designation, rather than an honorific title, and implies nothing about the mental level of those … Read more

How the City of Nashua Treats Women Must Change

October 19, 2024 Laurie Ortolano

Ending Gender Discrimination in Public Information Access I have faced unjustified obstacles and outright hostility for four years while attempting to access public information from Nashua under New Hampshire’s 91-A Right to Know law. What I’ve experienced goes beyond bureaucratic inefficiency to include gender-based discrimination. Nashua’s leadership treats women differently—and worse than men. The Disparity: Men … Read more

Do Americans Prefer Equalizing Outcome or Opportunity in 2024?

September 11, 2024 Gonzalo Schwarz

The American Dream was built on a promise of equality – a promise of equality in terms of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. During the 2024 election, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are both working overtime to say why Republicans or Democrats are better on the equality issue. But what kind of equality? Harris … Read more

The Folly of Legislating against Unfairness

August 25, 2024 Op-Ed

By Wanjiru Njoya | Mises Wire – In A Cure Worse Than The Disease: Fighting Discrimination Through Government Control, M. Lester O’Shea criticizes the notion that we should legislate against unfairness. He poses the question as follows: “No one defends unfairness. So shouldn’t it be against the law?” In posing the question that way, his point … Read more

Blogline of the Day – And It Is Your Government That Is the Oppressor. How Can It Not Be?

February 8, 2023 Skip

I was looking through our archives for mentions of the Frankfurt School, and Antonio Gramsci for my “Disney’s REALLY gone Woke” post, and this popped up from 2016. While not directly in line, it does approach in a similar fashion because it REQUIRES Government to carry out the action.

And US Journalists Wonder Why the Public Is Ignoring Them?

February 4, 2023 Skip

Instapundit had these tweets from Michael Shellenberger (not in his Twitter feed anymore) on information from Pew Research on how US Journalists see their jobs vs. how the Public see how they SHOULD be doing it.

With Elections Looming Let’s Revisit the Fake “Problem” of Student Voting Rights in NH

August 22, 2022 Steve MacDonald

Any student over 18 has the right to vote, assuming they’ve not done something to lose that right. In New Hampshire, Student Voting Rights translate as follows: out-of-state students attending college in New Hampshire have more voting rights than actual residents.

Equity Medicine Protest fist with hypdermic2

The Virus Thus Became the Vehicle for Imposing Equity over Equality

January 18, 2022 Op-Ed

Circle back to a year ago. The pandemic was raging and we all shared a desperate hope for the success of Operation Warp Speed. Every one of us faced a very personal threat from the raging virus from China. We looked to our leaders for guidance and assurance.

DIE-J Snake Oil Tsunami Strikes Exeter’s School District: The Search for Cognitive Survivors On-going!

August 22, 2021 Op-Ed

At the “Learning about DIE-J” [Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Justice] forum in Exeter last week, just after the audience was warned that the police were standing by for anyone shouting for sanity, the Tsunami’s propaganda wave suddenly struck.

Critical Race Theory: A Deeper Definition

May 19, 2021 Skip

The first in this series is here: “What is Critical Race Theory?” in which I reported on Christopher Rufo’s speech at Hillsdale College that graced the page’s of its Imprimis offering. To Recap:

The NH Dept of Ed Wants “Increasing Equitable Access” – About That…

January 27, 2021 Skip

Got this Presser from the NH Dept of Education. Actually, I get a lot of them (don’t know if I get them all). At first blush I just went through it and then one word caught my eye: Equitable.

The Radical Egalitarians And Their Rival Constitution

January 2, 2021January 2, 2021
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The U.S. Constitution, the one the founders wrote, holds that all men are created equal. We are endowed by our “nature and nature’s God” with unalienable rights. Those rights precede government. Further, the purpose of the state is to protect those rights and to treat all citizens equally.

This election is about western civilization.

We Are in a Struggle for the Very Soul and Being of Western Civilization

October 13, 2020

Is it true that to have a pathway into politics one needs to be rich or to know rich people? Or is it possible to have the acuity to identify a unique window of opportunity and capitalize on it? Is this new or has this always been the American system?

Is There still Time to Rekindle America’s Spirit of Pride?

September 15, 2020 Peter Lemiska

Americans haven’t always seen eye-to-eye on all issues. From the beginning, long before there were Democrats and Republicans, there were opposing political parties offering contrasting solutions to the problems facing our country.

Notable Quote – Equity does not mean Equality

August 10, 2020August 10, 2020 Skip

“[E]quity,” (is) a euphemism for racial, gender and other discrimination. It’s the opposite of equal opportunity, it’s demanding equal results even if it means discriminating against some people on the basis of race, ethnicity or other immutable factors.

Fundamentally and Violently Transforming

July 6, 2020July 1, 2020

The Left is hellbent, though, on fundamentally and violently transforming America. Remember all the way back to last year. Feminists were celebrating women’s equality. They were declaring #TheFutureIsFemale; now men can be women by simply claiming the title. This is just one more example of exactly how ignorant smart phones are making us. The internet … Read more

Female Democrats Complain Over Being Treated….. EQUALLY

June 9, 2020June 9, 2020 Kimberly Morin

File this in the ‘you can’t make this stuff up’ folder folks. Female Democrat Representatives Jan Schmidt and Rosemarie Rung (two of the worst reps at the NH State House) are complaining for being treated….. seriously… not even kidding… EQUALLY. They apparently don’t like to be held accountable, as elected officials, for their votes, actions … Read more

Quick Thought: Media Hypocrisy on Prez Candidates and churches. Why is only one in “hot water”?

June 4, 2020 Skip

And no, it’s not about Holy Water, either. A picture of two candidates – why didn’t you hear a squawk out of the MSM about the second one? Oh, Narrative: First: One in a black church Second: One outside a church on the public sidewalk So, one is politicking inside the church, taking a knee … Read more

Shaking our Faith in the “American creed”

June 2, 2020June 1, 2020

Watching TV this weekend, the contrasts could not have been more shocking to the human conscience. Hoodlum anarchist Gen-Z’ers and Millennials looting and rioting across America in supposed “protest” to the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on one hand.

Was Malthus Correct After All?

May 10, 2020

Thomas Robert Malthus is known for the assertion: Population grows geometrically while food production grows arithmetically. Yeah, I know, it just ain’t so. So why bring it up, right?