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It's like when some politician calls for "tougher sentences for crimes of whatever" without seeming to know what whatever actually is and without seeming to know how the tougher sentences would relate to the punishment for crimes that aren't whatever. When the people who make laws about things look ignorant of the things they're making laws about it means Parliament is just a fucking soap opera of politicians trying to be popular.
Similarly, when talking about concepts like equal opportunity it's kinda important to show that you understand what equality is and what it means to be equal and what an opportunity is and how a person could be deprived of it. Otherwise you're just parroting buzzwords because all the other cool kids are saying those words too.
I described fixed_truth's definition of equal opportunity as "when at birth someone has the same prospects of success as anyone else" as "vague meaningless twaddle" because it is vague meaningless twaddle. It says nothing meaningful. Or, put another way, it means absolutely anything you want.
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