Historian Kim Phillips-Fein on the inegalitarian tradition in the United States. Worth noting Alexander Stephens's famous "cornerstone" speech, contending that the Confederacy was based on a repudiation of the idea that all men are created equal.
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This is the dumbest thing I've read this month. The phrase in question refers equality before the law. It does not claim that all people are equal in talent, intelligence, ambition, strength, luck, or economic outcomes.
Markets run on probability and marginal gain. Division of labor. Fair exchange. We start unequal but sometimes we get it right and lift each ourselves and each other.
Geez Louise.
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Are all people strictly equal in ability, opportunity, and luck? No! But the wealthy and their apologists believe that justifies their greed. It’s also a skewed assumption of what we ought to value in humanity. Inequality is NOT inevitable or good!
UK commentators sharpen your pencils !
All Men Are Created Equal’? Not Everyone Agrees.
“Dr. Carvalho praises stratification as a societal building block, saying, “Democracy runs on equality; freedom and excellence run on inequality.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/o...
