The cornerstone of American democracy, the premise that all men are created equal, is a blatant lie. Let’s set aside for the moment that America has been shamefully slow in living up to the proposition that all men should be TREATED EQUALLY under the law. The assertion posited in the U.S. Declaration of Independence that we are “all created equal” is utter nonsense. This should be immediately obvious to anyone.
Use any yardstick you want - raw intelligence, creativity, strength, endurance, specialized athletic prowess, height, beauty, singing ability, balance, wisdom, integrity, diligence, poise, courage or tolerance - we are all different. We are most certainly NOT at all created as equals.
Albert Einstein was a brilliant theoretical physicist but would have made a pathetic comedian. Andy Kaufman, widely considered to have been a comic genius, could never have come up with the Law of General Relativity. George F. Will is an articulate and incisive political commentator, but he could not be expected to survive 10 seconds in the ring with Mike Tyson, a fearsome man who could beat the snot out of (almost) anyone but who is an inarticulate beast wholly lacking in political or historical insight. No amount of rigorous training could have ever transformed Danny DeVito into the equal of Michael Jordan on the basketball court.
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But why should our alleged equality matter to anyone anyway? The premise of equal treatment under the law does not require that the members of the populace actually be equal by any measure of raw talent or accomplishment.
With continued hard work, commitment (and a different president), I believe that America will continue to inch closer to its goal of equal treatment for all under the law. But, please, spare me the empty headed political canard about all people being equal.
It’s simply not true.
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last commentPeople are created equal and then it changes. You are equating equal with the same.
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Some get the egotistical thang going on and they think they can be an expert skier in the flatlands of Massachusetts
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#1 shit truck driver settings records for loads dumped
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Of course all men are not created equal - this was obvious to me when I first started watching porn
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Papi,
I know what you mean.
Those guys in the porn films with their dinky Vienna sausages are so pathetic.
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Okay.
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@RevHB & Papi I’m more equal than y’all 😂
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Wait until Icey chimes in.
I’ll bet his unit puts a fire hose to shame and has the full text of Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” tattooed on it.
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Being created equal, and being equal are two different things. Neither means being the "same".... Equality in a constitutional sense, simply refers to equal treatment before the law.
Also, keep in mind that said terms had different socio-cultural interpretations in the past than they do now.
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“ Also keep in mind that said terms had different socio-cultural interpretations on the par than they do now.”
Right!
The notions about equality didn’t apply to blacks, Native Americans or women.
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It didn't even apply to Catholics... and whiteness was viewed very differently. I remember reading how Swedish immigrants were viewed as "swarthy" by English colonists...People's worldviews were shaped very differently.
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The Equal in the declaration refers to having rights from their creator. We are supposed to all be equal under the law.....not that we are all equal in ability.
As for your comment about changing presidents....what has Trump done to treat people unequally under the law?
Who is it that says that certain political speech is hate speech but other is not. Who says that there should be laws to protect certain groups but not others. Who is demanding that some social media platforms silence some groups and not others.
There is this strange view of reality out there that some people hold that calls for equal treatment but only for the people they feel should be considered equal....and that everyone else should be silenced or penalized.
The world is upside down.
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At the risk of being an originalist, I believe the founders essentially meant all men are created equal in the eyes of God.
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No, it was meant that irrespective of differences, no one should be denied their basic rights within society. The premise of equality back then was based on the belief in "human nature." Thus having human nature made everyone equal... What that means is that yes, they believed we're equal, but not that said equality would garner everyone the same results.
As far as equality today, attacking unfair disadvantage means attacking unfair privilege as well. However in some racists' view.... equality means simply saying everyone will now be treated like they're white and can do what whites do... But once they learn that equality entails ridding society of white privilege, well.... they get butt hurt.
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The context involved the taxation and representation of colonists vs. those living in sovereign territory.
As far as the rest, you'd be hard pressed to find an industrialized country anywhere in this world that has less in institutionalized racism and is more diverse than the United States. At some point, any group that feels under-represented in politics and industry needs to stop whining, shed their victim mentality and make better use of the opportunities amply available to them.
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"... Who is demanding that some social media platforms silence some groups and not others ..."
As I've posted in the past, liberals are the most open-minded people one will ever meet as long as you agree with them - and the more left they are the worse (look at college campuses that block, at times thru violence, people from speaking on campus that do not agree with their world view) - and in the ultimate left, communism which does not allow any discussion at all or else.
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It isn't about agreement or disagreement. If someone supports racist/sexist/homophobic/xenophobic etc views, then of course they should be called out on it and opposed. To say that bigots are victims because their bigotry is no longer openly tolerated is inane.
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Come now Horny Ape, all men (aka hairless apes) are indeed equal - to a reasonable approximation.
Of course, I am excluding my bud dugan from this statement. He is superior. You see, we ricks are as far beyond the average hairless ape as a normal hairless ape is beyond an amoeba
Are some amoebas better at doing their amoeba shit than other amoebas? Maybe... maybe there is some go-getter amoeba out there that has figured out the best way to inflict amoebic dysentery on hairless apes, but said amoeba is still a frickin’ amoeba.
We ricks view the rest of you the same way. Squawk!
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Wasn't this also a statement about dissolving the division between royalty and the "common man"? In a monarchy just because you are born a royal made you a qualified head of government (unequal rights at birth). Our new system of citizen government was quite radical for the time. The opportunity for any citizen to be a voted into leadership without the "qualifying" royal bloodline was indeed revolutionary.
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Equality in the context of "Rights".
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But would you allow the amoeba my vulture bud was discussing to run for your presidency? If not, why not? Because this rick doesn’t see much of a difference...
ROAR!!!
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Upright citizen is correct. All men are created equal insofar as the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Regardless of your inherited/genetic intelligence, physical prowess, race, etc., all men are born with an equal right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. What happens after that is up to you.
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Liberals call everything racist homophobic and misogynistic. They're expressing their own bigotry. They are the"good" bigots.
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^ funniest load of crap yet
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Let’s leave aside skifredo’s incessant attempts to inject politics into the front room for just a minute.... But... if you read his comment through apolitical lens it seems like Skifredo is actually confessing to being a BAD bigot!
Glad he cleared that up. I just thought he was a giant toolbag. Squawk!!!
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Actually, rev, I think you are confusing being created equal (i.e. - equal rights, equal protection, equal representation, etc.) With being created equally (i.e. - talents and abilities). The latter is true, or should be in our republic. The latter is clearly not the case.
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If all men were truly created equal why do all the girls tell me I have such a big dick
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Because they LIE! 😁
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