:“,” May 29 guest commentary.
Thank you for the interesting commentary by Joseph A. Garcia and Estela Mara Bensimon. While I agree with the authors that majority culture bias exists in academia, I disagree with their prescription. When government moves from mandating equality of opportunity to guaranteeing equality of outcome, it crosses the line from utopian to dystopian.
The late science fiction author Kurt Vonnegut satirized this tendency in his short story “Harrison Bergeron,” about a future America in which all people have been made “equal” through the application of physical and mental handicaps. Ballerinas must wear lead weights around their ankles, and intellectuals wear headphones that emit random shrieks to distract them from thinking. If Vonnegut, who considered himself a socialist, were alive today, one suspects he would vote Libertarian.
Jack Woehr, Golden
This letter was published in the June 5 edition.
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