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Thanks3 Posted 5 years ago
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"racial inequity" vs "racial inequality"?

Q1.Do you usually use "racial inequity" as the meaning of "racial inequality"?

Q2. Is my question(Q1) a right sentence, especially the part "as the meaning of"?

Q3. Is this sentence correct, too: "Do you usually use "A" as the same meaning as "B"?

  

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Do you usually use "racial inequity" as the meaning of "racial inequality"? No. "Inequity", a word most people couldn't define off the cuff, means unfairness or unjustness.

  • Do you usually use "racial inequity" as the meaning of "racial inequality"?
  • No.
  • "Inequity", a word most people couldn't define off the cuff, means unfairness or unjustness.
  • "Inequality" means the state of being unequal.
  • You rarely hear of racial inequity because it doesn't make much sense.
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thanks3Q1.Do you usually use "racial inequity" as the meaning of "racial inequality"?

No. "Inequity", a word most people couldn't define off the cuff, means unfairness or unjustness. "Inequality" means the state of being unequal. You rarely hear of racial inequity because it doesn't make much sense. You might as well talk about racial justice, whatever that

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thanks3Do you usually use "A" as with the same meaning as "B"?

As shown.

CJ

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