This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, May 31st, 2022.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Equality before the law should be a universal value,

but many policy makers have a strong preference instead for delivering

equity through government means.

That means privileging some groups or individuals over others as a matter of law.

When FAW is a senior attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation,

we spoke earlier this month in Chicago.

In general, when we hear in public discussions

and occasionally in courtrooms.

Equality versus equity.

What is that detail that distinction as best you can?

Right, so the quality movement, what we believe in... detail that

we believe in is equality of rights that every individual is entitled to life,

liberty, opportunity as an individual.

Whereas in recent years, we've seen a bigger shift towards equity.

And what the equity movement advocates for is

for is equality of outcomes and not just equality of outcomes of

broad-based group-based equality of outcomes. They say that because you are

a person of a certain racial classification you are entitled to certain racial classification,

you are entitled to certain benefits just because of a race.

So getting to equity requires some pretty substantial calculus as to who gets what, who has what, and how you get

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