# Ought public libraries advance social agendas?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 2, 2024, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ought-public-libraries-advance-social-agendas/999737 "2024-04-02T13:35:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 2, 2024, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ought-public-libraries-advance-social-agendas/999737/53 "2024-04-02T23:19:37Z")

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> [@GIGObuster](#):
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> Trainers in DEI courses do indeed point that Equity != Equality, it seems that you are only talking on what the right wing is telling you what DEI is.

No, I was describing what the trainers say. So the people in the thread saying that the left just wants ‘equality’ are wrong. Equity involves mandating unequal treatment of some until there is no more inequity.

Equality= Equal opportunity, equal treatment under the law.  
Equity = Equal outcome, on the assumption that outcomes would always be equal if there weren’t dastardly forces at play causing inequity, and unequal treatment under the law in order to correct the ‘inequity’.

> [@GIGObuster](#):
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> It should not be a problem is after or at the same time there is a display about Pro-Choice, Gun control, and the Cristians that also oppose the Trump idiocy about his bible.

This I agree with completely.

And in case no one noticed, I was speaking sarcastically about Trump’s stupid bible.

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