Here’s how Fairfax County explains One Fairfax visually:

On paper, One Fairfax is a joint social and racial equity policy adopted by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors and School Board. The official description says it “commits the county and schools to intentionally consider equity when making policies or delivering programs and services.” In plain English, it’s a policy that filters every county decision through an “equity lens”, from schools to law enforcement to budgeting.

Sounds harmless enough, right? But the more you examine the language, the vaguer it gets, and the less it sounds like equal opportunity for all, and more like permanent ideological oversight of every county action. The Board packages this in an infographic filled with feel-good slogans, but the substance tells a very different story.

First, Chairman McKay, the title “Chairman” does not give you Soviet-style political authority to impose ideology under the guise of policy. In America, elected officials are expected to govern for the benefit of all citizens, not to condition county programs on adherence to a political worldview.

One Fairfax, jointly adopted by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors and the School Board, is presented as a neutral, common-sense approach to ensuring opportunity for all. In reality, it’s political theater dressed in buzzwords, an ideological framework that inserts political criteria into every county decision, regardless of relevance, and in many cases regardless of the law’s intent.

I am not opposed to equal opportunity. In fact, I’m strongly in favor of it. Equal treatment under the law is the bedrock of a free society. But One Fairfax is not about equal treatment, it is about equalizing outcomes through preferential treatment, narrative control, and bureaucratic expansion.