Recite the Equity Pledge

Prince William County, Virginia, at the forefront of the woke revolution, has a Racial and Social Justice Commission.  Racial and Social Justice Commission (pwcgov.org)

The County’s Board of Supervisors approved the commission on Oct. 19, 2020. It was tasked with reporting on “the state of racial and social justice for people of color” in the county and making policy recommendations to the local government. The entity’s initial focus is on policing, public education, and the ‘provision of government services.’” ‘You Want Us To Recite This?’: County ‘Social Justice Commission’ Starts Tense With Unannounced ‘Equity Pledge’ | The Daily Caller

The commission adopted an Equity Communication Pledge. At their first meeting, one member refused to recite the pledge, objecting to the fact that the pledge had not been circulated prior to the meeting. Perhaps this organization should have recited the Pledge of Allegiance instead?

The pledge states that it “sets the norms to support and lead equity and social justice conversations.” Who decided what the norms are and what does the leadership of these “equity” norms intend to do with them when they have the “conversations” on the liberal construct of “social justice” with the taxpayers and residents of Prince William County?

The person pledging is supposed to agree to the norms by “monitoring my thoughts for internal dialogue.” This implies that a person’s thoughts may be divergent from the norms established by this vaunted group and thus unacceptable. Orwell wrote in his “1984” book about the Thought Police.

The pledge encourages statements from “my own experience” and “I think, I feel, I believe.” The idea of “facts” is not mentioned in the official document.

The pledge wants people to “reflect on my intention and impact on others before making a question or making a comment.” In other words, you must be careful not to offend any protected group based on race.

The pledge also warns against “rushing to quick solutions, especially in relation to racial understanding.” It is not explained the exact meaning of “racial understanding.” Who are these people that we must racially understand?  Apparently, we must have “ongoing dialogue” with them. And who decides what is “rushing to quick solutions?” How is this “rushing” being measured? What constitutes an “acceptable solution” and acceptable to whom?

The pledge urges citizens to “grow my equity lens.” I am not sure what an “equity lens” is; I am also not sure what their definition of “equity” is. But whatever it is, we must move “towards solutions with constructive collaborative actions.” Again, there is no definition of what “constructive collaborative actions” are, however, since the majority of the county’s residents have no idea of the existence of this Racial and Social Justice Commission’s pledge of “Equity Communication,” if is fair to say that it falls under the Orwellian Newspeak of 2021.

The pledgers must practice “self-care,” another Orwellian term, during which time citizens must “set time aside to process, reflect and recharge in positive ways.” Who decides what such “positive ways” are? I venture to say that it is this social engineering commission, entrusted with erasing any thoughts disagreeable with their agenda.

Last, but not least, the commission, urges citizens to “reflect” on the racial and ethnic division these commission members are creating with this ridiculous waste of taxpayer dollars.

The commission wants us to be “willing participants, learners, and intentional listeners to lead equity and social justice conversations.” And, what if we do not want to be participants in this equity and social justice liberal experiment? Additionally, what is an “intentional listener” exactly? Can one be an unintentional listener?

“Equity” is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “the quality of being fair and impartial,” or “justice according to natural law or right, specifically, freedom from bias or favoritism.” In finance, equity is ownership of assets that may have debts or other liabilities attached to them.”

The woke claim that “racial equity,” another leftist construct, is somehow suddenly missing in our modern society of the 21^st century, is an insult to law and justice which, by definition, treats everyone impartially and equally under the law, regardless of their skin color, ethnic background, sex, disabilities, etc.

“Social justice” is a political and philosophical construct which holds that “all people should have equal access to wealth, health, wellbeing, justice, and opportunity.” All people do have equal access of opportunity, but they must apply themselves, nobody owes them anything, not other citizens, and certainly not the government.

All people, legal and illegal, have equal access to hospitals, doctors, medical care, drugs, and justice, but the wellbeing of everyone is dependent on what kind of lifestyle they lead, how well they take care of themselves, and how many healthy habits they follow.

The idea that everyone should have equal access to wealth is ridiculous on its face. People have built wealth, lost it, or accumulated it over time, have inherited it, and many have worked extremely hard to achieve it.

How is it socially just to confiscate something from people who worked hard, and give it to people who had neither the ability, the work ethic, the education, the experience, and the effort expended to build wealth?

And once everything is taken from the producers and equally distributed to the idle, how long will this “collective” wealth last and who is going to build and amass the next fortune once everyone spent their wealth and became “poor” again?

Could the Social Justice woke warriors be a little more specific about their idea of equity and how far are they willing to go with their woke oppression, thought police, and woke Marxist indoctrination? Equity in the woke Newspeak is racism.