Common meaning:

To allow a former colony to become self-governing.

Hidden meaning of the Equity religion: 

Removing logical reasoning from subjects and institutions. 

Discussion:

From the perspective of Equity believers, everything that the European colonizers brought to the lands they enslaved was dangerous and evil. In particular, the colonizers embedded oppressive reason and logic in the systems they created. Today, all subjects and institutions need to be cleansed from the malevolence of reason.

Some Equityists claim all they want to do is make changes in subjects to counter the idea that the culture of a colonizing power is more worthy than the culture of those who have been colonized. The problem is that they don’t mean we should address the real problems that colonization created in the world, but they want to remove reason itself.

It is almost impossible to overestimate how much the Equity religion hates Liberalism. It despises the things that occurred in the enlightenment and it wants to roll back all liberal values and rights, including democracy, equality, reason, logic and the scientific method.

Do we all want to live in an unreasonable world where the only beliefs that are allowed are those that follow the religion of Equity?