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Great piece by Daniel Greenfield exposing the ugly face of “equity”
FEMA uses something called the National Risk Index to calculate the risk to any area. The NRI can then be used to determine which communities should get how much funding to cope with natural disasters. Armed with an NRI evaluation, cities, counties and towns can apply for Hazard Mitigation Assistance grants. Billions in these grants have been handed out. The trouble with the NRI is that it’s less science and more sociology. And very leftist sociology at that.
The Index is made up of three components, the actual natural hazard, “community resilience” and “social vulnerability”. The last is really affirmative action for natural disasters. As FEMA puts it, social vulnerability calculates the “susceptibility of social groups to the adverse impacts of natural hazards”.Or as the old joke has it, “Earth destroyed: minorities hardest hit.”
Except with FEMA, it’s not a joke, it’s policy.
Go read it all. This is a tremendous example of how “equity” works. And no, by working I do not mean by being successful or ensuring those most in need get help first. That is NOT how equity works.
