The two were talking about “equity” vs. “equality.”
During Friday night’s broadcast of Real Time, host Bill Maher quizzed guest socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) on particular woke language used by the far-left —and it didn’t go well for Bernie.
“Are we confusing equality of opportunity with trying to guarantee equity in outcomes?” Maher asks Sanders.
“I think this word ‘equity’ has come into the language in the last few years and before that we didn’t hear it a lot. And I think a lot of people hear ‘equity’ and they hear ‘equality’ like it’s the same word, but it’s not the same word and the same concept,” Maher explained.
“So how would you differentiate between equity and equality?” he asked Sanders.
“Well equality, we talk about – uh, I don’t know what the answer to that is,” Sanders said to laughter.
“Equality is equality of opportunity,” he added.
“Equity, I think, is more of a guarantee of outcome, is it not?” Maher said, interrupting Sanders.
“Yeah, I think so,” Sanders said.
“Which side do you come down on?” Maher asked Sanders, again pressing him on the issue.
“Equality,” Sanders responded.
Watch the exchange above.
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