When Equality Ceases to Be Equality
In a truly healthy and civilized society, the principle according to which all human life possesses identical value should be an unquestionable truth. The expression all lives matter arose as an appeal to unity, a reminder that justice loses its very meaning when it becomes selective. Yet, in the morally feverish atmosphere of our time, affirming that white lives matter has turned into an act of silent rebellion.
The paradox is evident. We live in an age in which inclusion is proclaimed on all media and academic platforms, while exclusion is practiced with impunity against anyone who dares to reaffirm the universality of human worth. A slogan conceived to express solidarity, White Lives Matter, is now condemned as offensive, extremist, or hateful. On the very platforms that declare themselves defenders of diversity of expression, one is hastily silenced, censored, or ridiculed for uttering those three simple words.
This is not justice. It is moral inversion. To denigrate one group in the name of another is not equality. It is discrimination in a different form. True equality demands coherence. If society insists on proclaiming that Black Lives Matter, Asian Lives Matter, and Trans Lives Matter, then it must also recognize that White Lives Matter. Otherwise, we are not dealing with equality but with ideological hierarchy.
It is worth recalling that, contrary to what dominant propaganda suggests, peoples of European descent today represent a global demographic minority. Paradoxically, that oppressed minority is treated as if it were a moral oppressor, expected to apologize for its very existence. No civilization can prosper when a segment of its children is taught to be ashamed of its own heritage.
Social networks, once presented as tribunals of free dialogue, have become modern inquisitorial courts. Opinions are banned, censored, or erased whenever they diverge from the permitted narrative. Such conduct is not only anti-democratic, it is profoundly dangerous, for it destroys the very foundation of civilized coexistence: the free exchange of ideas.
History teaches us that no society survives when truth is repressed. When the voices of some are amplified and others despised, resentment germinates, division grows, and the moral fabric of the Nation frays. The ethical strength of a people is not measured by the protection it grants to those who take offense, but by the courage with which it defends the right of every citizen to speak, express, and dissent, even when truth becomes unpopular.
Until the day arrives when human life genuinely imposes no exception, we shall remain a society that proclaims equality while practicing exclusion.
César DePaço
Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
Consul ad-honorem of Portugal (2014–2020)
Founder and CEO of Summit Nutritionals International Inc.
President of the DePaço Foundation
Unconditional supporter of Law Enforcement and of Conservative Principles
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