When Basketball Meets 'social Justice'

[FirefightnRick]

By Thomas Sowell

Sometimes, when I hear about "disparities" and "inequities," I think of a disparity that applied directly to me – the disparity in basketball ability between myself and Michael Jordan.

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My favorite part:

The same principle applies elsewhere. If you are going to try to equalize the chances of women getting jobs as firefighters, for example, then you are going to have to lower the physical requirements of height, weight and upper body strength

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That means that you are going to have more firefighters who are not capable of carrying an unconscious person out of a burning building.

If you are going to have these lower physical requirements be the same for both women and men, that means you are not only going to have women who are not capable of carrying someone out of a burning building, you are also going to have men who are likewise incapable of carrying someone to safety.

Most activities do not exist for the sake of equality. They exist to serve their own purposes – and those purposes are undermined, sometimes fatally, when equality becomes the goal.

Hits home for me.

Rick

Edited July 16, 2009 by FirefightnRick

[KRAM1]

Hits home for a lot of us, but you won't get some of our "friends" to think it is anything but some hard hearted conservative trying to deny women their "rights". I heard a democrat last evening call health care a "right". 'Nuf said!