>Creating equality usually ends up involving taking away freedom and oppressing people.
This is hyperbolic and false.
The first and most relevant example that I can think of in the West is the Civil Rights Movement. People were more equal following this. (And, in wealth terms, the US has become less equal again since then).
What freedoms did that take away; what oppression did it create; how many millions died?
You're talking about making people politically and legally equal. But attempts to make people economically equal are what the rest of us are discussing here. Your example of the Civil Rights movement is therefore rather irrelevant.
Attempts to make people economically more equal can succeed, if they are partial and gradual. Attempts to do so radically and quickly seems, historically, to quite often result in oppression and disaster.
This is hyperbolic and false.
The first and most relevant example that I can think of in the West is the Civil Rights Movement. People were more equal following this. (And, in wealth terms, the US has become less equal again since then).
What freedoms did that take away; what oppression did it create; how many millions died?