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 21st 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.
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