LETTER: Equal misery is as bad as inequality
White supremacy is not the only bad actor inflicting misery and poverty in parts of the world
The secretary-general of the UN spoke eloquently in his Nelson Mandela memorial lecture on July 18 about the global racial and wealth inequalities caused by colonialism and the legacy of white superiority, now exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Yes, inequality is also a social pandemic, pre-dating the coronavirus, but the import of the lecture lay not so much in what was said as what was not said.
While the focus of the speech was on the evils of inequality, one would expect the leader of the UN to recognise that this is not the sum total of evil in the world. If inequality is cruel and hurtful, so too is perfectly equal misery under vicious totalitarian regimes...
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