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What are Rodchenko's arguments for equality?
Many arguments for equality flow from the premise that gender differences have historically been overstated.
Having to endlessly restate the arguments for equality at the highest levels in a profession that is overwhelmingly female makes her feel "tired, demoralised, angry", she says.
And yet other arguments for equality suggest that limiting the diversity of any gathering curtails the range of life experiences and perspectives in the room, and results in narrower, dumber decisions.
Still, it's hard not to ask: If the Nineteenth Amendment had been a broadway in constitutional law, instead of a dead end, and if, beginning with, say, Trubek v. Ullman, reproductive-rights cases had proceeded from arguments for equality, rather than for privacy, would Justices Scalia, Alito, Kennedy, Thomas, and Roberts still have been able to rule in favor of Hobby Lobby?
As academics from Danny Dorling, with his geography of inequality, to Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, with their practical arguments for equality, have evidenced, the real problems now facing us are much more clearly and closely related to a socially irresponsible "overclass", than imagined depredations from immigrants or immigration.
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It is illiberal and counter to any argument for equality.
Also important is the way the argument for equality is framed.
If the left really wants to win the argument for equality, it can't publicly argue for collective responsibility and privately duck out in the name of individualism.
QUESTION FROM CHRISTOPHER: While the conservative justices by be ware of "judicial activisim", Theodore Olson makes a very strong argument for equality.
"When you hinge the argument for equality of opportunity in creative fields on the specific complaint that a particular movie or performance was unjustly denied, you're inevitably weakening that case because not everyone does or should agree on what movies are good," DeBoer warns.
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