Abstract
In contemporary U.S. public discourse, calls for achieving equity abound. Many metrics now measure equity being achieved. I inquire into whether equity can be said to be achieved and still be equity. Inquiring as such leads me to excavating the menacing and actual cultural violence of developing such achievement. Simultaneously, this excavation shows the rhetoric of equity qua equity as a means of abolishing the conditions for that violence to take hold. I put forward that equity cannot be said to be achieved without the conditions of possibility equity offers being colonized. If a commitment to antiviolence speaks, it cannot say, "Equity achieved."
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2022
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Recommended Citation
Mifsud, Mari Lee. "What Cannot Be Said? "Equity Achieved"." Philosophy & Rhetoric 55, no. 1 (2022): 71-75. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/855139.