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Equality page on Latent Bloomers deals with how society perceives equality, inequality, ant the outcomes of them both.
Concentrating in social inequality makes this place suitable for everyone who is a part of society, and therefore this page is All-People.
Care to find yourself in?
Why don't we start with a SMILE?...
Equality first subject of study:
(In)Equality Evolution
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Given different scenario of human evolution, would equality be evaluated differently?
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Does the definition of equality deprive equal rights from us?
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Why do only narrow, one-dimensional definitions work for us?
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How is this a culture issue?
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How does it fit with evolution?
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Where and how are changes being made and applied throughout humanity evolution?
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What does it say about WHAT WE CAN DO?
Society's Part
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Equality vs. Inequality
Are the terms we use being used correctly?
Why does it matter, and how does it prevent equality from us?
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Special needs vs. "Special" "Needs"
Who defines what special is, and what "special" needs?
Why do we follow those definitions?
Why is one only considered "special" if one has "special" needs?
Acting on Inequality
Inequality Damages
Spoiler alert: I am not going to shock any of you.
Social Inequality was, and will forever be, the reason for all unhappiness.
But as this is a vague statement (for some reason, which I don't understand), I would like to point to the overlooked outcomes of social inequality, and correlate it to the reason people are at constant search for Happiness, which will never transform unless we transform.
I will start by noting that I do understand it's hard to reach the glass-ceiling in order to break it, but once we reach it, it's broken.
It won't be hard, especially since some are paving the ways for centuries (aka activism).
Now I want to chip in.
Starting with a field that matters to us all: Privacy
I do not mean to discuss the concept of Privacy (for now), so I will spare you my philosophy, but I do want to point out this case:
How Natalie Portman became the latest Israel-Palestine flashpoint, and although rhetoric, I would like to suggest an answer to this question, by using this article, which in short highlights the fact that if Natalie Portman wouldn't end up famous or wouldn't have been born in Israel, she would have been permitted to feel what she feels, and would not have to take responsibility for a whole nation (or nations, depending on your strongest hand. Lucky we have only two of those).
"Celebrities deciding to avoid Israel on political grounds is not all that uncommon. Hollywood is left-leaning, and many celebrities are outspokenly pro-Palestinian. Netanyahu’s government is one of the furthest right in Israeli history, particularly when it comes to the conflict with the Palestinians. Tensions are to be expected.
But Portman is an altogether different case. She is an Israeli citizen, born in Jerusalem, though she was raised in America and currently lives in
France. In the past, Portman has been an outspoken advocate of Israel — as an undergraduate at Harvard, she worked on a prominent book defending the Jewish state against its critics. She speaks fluent Hebrew; in 2015, she wrote, directed, and starred in a Hebrew-language adaptation of Israeli author Amos Oz’s memoir."
If Natalie Portman wouldn't be offered a prize for her work and for being born in Israel, she could continue feeling the way she does, and make choices that are solely hers, and are based on her personal experience. Maybe she would even refrain from the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and not have it hanging on her conscience.
If she would be considered regular, a person, she could concentrate on her fans (which she is supposed to affect), and not on two nations that will never escape warfare, as long as they believe that famous people should be treated better than people.
She would then be offered a prize that doesn't make you question her ethics, and you would know about it as a fan, and not as a critic/politician/Israeli/Palestinian/let's not do this...
And if you wonder whether she did or did not receive the $2M, I am pleased to tell you this isn't the place for that.
I have already contributed enough to this farce, and clearly got mine.
Time to Get Even!
Opening with some fun equality
Talk About Luck
When Salmon Mousse doesn't care if you're special.
The meaning of life, Monty Python; 1983
For the full scene: Monty Python-The Meaning of Life-Death
Some of us are already There
"There is nothing new under the sun."
On Equality Speakers around the world.
Bringing some fun stuff about inequality, unfortunately can't be a strategy.
It was obvious right from the beginning, that when I'm past setting up the platform and laying down my words, I will have to bring the words of others. In the field of social inequality, words of people can be painful.
I wish it weren't so, but I guess this is why I'm here, isn't it?
As I try to pave my way through the world of activism, I get to many stories, personal stories, that can regard one person's life. In this field, this life is, with no exceptions, unhappy.
I am really trying to not put words in others mouths, and I didn't go around and asked people if their lives are unhappy. But when I ask myself if I want to know in person what it feels to live the life of someone who fights for their personal equality, the answer is no.
I really wish to not argue over the above statement, but since this is what I speak of, I will just say that like anyone else, I too do not want to switch lives with no one, but there is a difference between realizing you wouldn't remain yourself upon exchanging lives with others, and knowing that there are lives that no one would want to switch to, even hypothetically.
I am not a pioneer, or an avant-garde, or anything like that.
Those things have been said ever since we learned to speak.
Jane Elliott speaks the same language, and while she captures it perfectly, it does regard Black citizens (apparently American ones).
Unfortunately, inequality is an intensive property, and affects everyone in its environment.
Just for exercise, imagine a world with only Black citizens, or only Jews, or women, or mute, or personal coachers, etc. Do you really think there wouldn't be discrimination?
The ones of you that do contribute to and for others, have you ever considered giving the same amount of effort to, or just towards, your friends? your siblings? your partners?
Have you ever realized you have a friend that needs help that you don't even know of (like stranger's problems), and you might be the source for that help?
I think that from our side (the people that construct the society, you and me), we need to start acknowledging that we discriminate the majority of the society, which usually includes our loved ones and ourselves (unless you are not part of us Regulars).
In the movie Hair, which one of its main concerns is racism, personal inequality rares its ugly head in the form of a song so beautiful, you forget to react to how mistreating others is the worst when it comes to your loved ones, no matter what color you are.
"Especially people who care about strangers
Who care about evil and social injustice
Do you only care about being proud
How about a needing friend?, I need a friend"
"Easy to be hard"; Cheryl_Barnes
Hair , 1979
If I could only...
During my search for platforms to speak Personal Equality on, I got to change.org. Among many petitions to learn about, there was one that drew my attention, and made me sit and write this whole "Some of us are already There" entry.
Her name is Alice Marie Johnson, a woman that was sentenced to life without parole for a first time nonviolent drug offense, and served more than two decades in prison, until Trump granted her clemency.
The petition that set her free was filed during Obama's administration, but her efforts meant nothing, until she caught Kim Kardashian's attention, which apparently means more to Trump than the possibility of someone ending their lives in jail.
"Johnson's was one of the 16,776 petitions filed in the Obama administration's 2014 clemency project. In 2016, she wrote an op-ed for CNN asking for forgiveness and a second chance. Her application was denied just before Obama left office. In 2018, Kim Kardashian and Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner sought to persuade Trump to grant clemency to Johnson. In late May 2018, Kardashian met Trump in the Oval Office to urge him to pardon Johnson. On June 6, 2018, following Kardashian's appeal, Trump commuted Johnson's sentence, and Johnson was released. The commutation was one of a series of acts of clemency made by Trump in a "few high-profile cases brought to him by associates and allies." The act was described as somewhat surprising given Trump's past statements in favor of executing drug dealers."
Alice Marie Johnson, Wikipedia
Today Alice is starting a new life. It's going to take time to get used to, and to her new world, and I hope it will turn out for the best, like things sometimes do.
You can help her start her new life by donating to the fundraiser petitioned for her at change.org, aiming for $25,000 (reached $17,298).
Her story moved me, and I wished I would know earlier and signed the petition to grant her clemency.
So I donated a couple of bucks, just to show I care and hope for the best.
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09.02.2019
update
While I was calculating if I am able for $5 or $6 out of the 12,707 remaining, I thought it's rather strange that Kim Kardashian doesn't make the same calculations I do.
But I guess being deemed to be angel grants you with the rights to step away from the race, that the rest of us non-angels are forced to keep racing.
I wish for Alice a happy life, and I will support her fight for freeing others, but more than that, I wish we would all give the time of day to each other, so no one has to depend on Kim and Trump's allies to survive, because it seems they can't really afford all that.
We can. But only if we get personal.
"Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That"
Seinfeld; The Outing; Season 4/16; 1993
The 20th Anniversary of When the Show ‘About Nothing’ Really Mattered
Jonathan Miller; 2017
Human-Nature is not history, it's Right Now
It is not the time to go blame your friends and loved ones for not being there for you like they are for strangers, and let's not forget that we are the loved ones of others. But it would get us further, should we start speaking Different - Social Inequality should be renamed, so we can address the truth that sustains it.
There is no social without personal, thus social inequality is personal inequality.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson's notion on that fact is being well spoken as an answer to the question "What's up with chicks and science?" on a conference that never meant to exhibit social inequality, especially not by calling people 'Chicks'.
But maybe the answer to what's inside Society's Black Hole starts at realizing we are all equal, before diving in?
I knew I love him, I didn't know we speak the same language.
"Neil deGrasse Tyson said what he thinks about race now that he's made it, and almost nobody noticed."
Neil DeGrasse Tyson reveals that has been black his whole life hilarity and wisdom follow.
Rajiv Narayan, www.upworthy.com, April 17, 2014
All been said and done, until it Never reached the End.
"It's nothing personal" is a myth, and although being convincingly told, and conveniently followed, it is still a myth, and can be replaced with another, while we're at it, so when reality surpasses it, it will be for the better.
The NeverEnding Story tells the story of Fantasia - a land that is made out of the personal wishes of all wishers, and since people have stopped wishing for personal wishes, Fantasia is dying.
Restoring Fantasia will only be possible upon starting to wish again, beginning with wishing the Empress of Fantasia a new name, in a scene that's supposed to encourage people to get personal, and let themselves dream
their own dreams, for the benefit of ALL.
Without your personality, this world would be different, and so would anybody else's. I don't want to get all philosophical, just to say that realizing it is always ourselves (aka Me) and Others (aka You), will open doors for everyone (aka Us). It's simple arethmetics, just like any story with a Happy Ending (or NeverEnding).
Wishing for a Happy NeverEnding?
The NeverEnding Story reveals its Happy Ending.
The NeverEnding Story; 1984
Why can't Happy arrive without ending?
So ammmm... are you ok?
It may seem that I am obsessed with the past, and it may be true.
But I would like to clear something out:
I believe that people should not be afraid of getting old. I see a world that disposes anything that isn't fresh and better-developed, and I wonder how do we let that nature of things be human nature.
Everyone is a Bloomer. Always.
I think that we should acknowledge that most of us don't get the chance to live up to what they really are, at the bottom line.
Some people don't have the means to empower themselves, others aren't aware of possibilities, others try and don't succeed, but everyone is in constant search for happiness, which became a trophy not everyone is entitled to.
You can find billions of results on how to reach success, all include ways to overcome yourself in order to climb mountains, reach the top, be the best of all.
Then you are called to serve groups in their fight for inequality, and you better have some groups to fight for, since social inequality is everywhere and there's always someone that suffers from it and needs help, because inequality is decentralized.
There are so many people that need your help in reaching happiness.
You can't help them all, and you can't fight for them all.
Unless... you fight to stop fighting, stop competing. And make it the last fight.
I start with using things that once were new and I have the chance to sustain them, to contribute, just because they happen to cross my mind.
Most of the time I find treasures. That includes people.
I wish everyone would feel like that, and I am trying to do something about it.
Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind, and sometimes you're just aside. It's the closest.
Living next door to Alice; Smokie; 1976
Sources
Source literature
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Inequality isn’t inevitable, it’s engineered. That’s how the 1% have taken over; Suzanne Moore
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Inequality isn't inevitable. Here's what we can do differently, Andrea Zorzetto
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Why Robert Reich Cares so Passionately about Economic Inequality; Paul Solman
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New Night Lights Maps Open Up Possible Real-Time Applications
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In first, satellite images of night lights show economic inequality in India
Images
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Starry Night Over the Rhône, an 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh
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Starry Night Over the Rhône, A similar view of the site, 2008
Inspirations
Mind
Openers

The image used to represent equality on Equality page (this page), which Reveals New Views of Earth at Night, is also Nasa's satellite recreation of Van Gogh's Starry Night, and came up while searching for the song by that title.
And if that isn't enough for connecting the spots, it also came up while searching for Income Inequality, as an application for measuring economic inequality in India (among other things).
No kidding,
EVERYONE IS AN ARTIST!
Mind
Openers
Inspirations
Starry starry night
"Van Gogh was unsuccessful during his lifetime, and was considered a madman and a failure.
He became famous after his suicide, and exists in the public imagination as the quintessential misunderstood genius, the artist 'where discourses on madness and creativity converge'.
His reputation began to grow in the early 20th century as elements of his painting style came to be incorporated by the Fauves and German Expressionists. He attained widespread critical, commercial and popular success over the ensuing decades, and is remembered as an important but tragic painter, whose troubled personality typifies the romantic ideal of the tortured artist."
(Vincent van Gogh From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Vincent Van Gogh is an example of society being funny like that, casting this latent bloomer out, and leaving only a late one.
Vincent Van Gogh may be one of the greatest painters known to society, but there is no doubt he gives us much more than millions of dollars worth beautiful paintings.
Van Gogh represents art and psychology in many fields of study, including his own, which makes him a resource of knowledge and an open-source database to use and learn from.

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Personal Equality
30/05/2018
Continuing my journey to become an activist, my first action:
Adjusting the language.
Whenever approaching equality, you have to be sensitive and considerate. Yet it seems like whatever you say, some group is going to get hurt.
Maybe this is why you can only find Equality in the dictionary.
Searching for equality on the internet brings up results that make you
wonder if equality belongs only to groups.
You will be offered information, discussions, suggestions to
participate in countless activities with the word equality in them, all
for the cause of supporting this group or another.
But try to find someone that supports you while you go to your boss
and tell him that you put your job at the first place, and expect
your job to do the same, and you'll be cast out, not just by him.
The fact that following equality deprives equality should not be accepted.
But desiring equality is humanly equal to the desire for inequality, and until we change that, equality will remain the glass-ceiling that it has been, ever since invented as a glass-ceiling.
True, our world would look different if we wouldn’t be concerned
with equality and wouldn’t act to achieve it, and any progress that
has been made is a bless.
But while we protest against social inequalities, we tolerate
personal inequalities, which include every person, regardless of
the groups they do or do not belong to.
Following Robert Reich and his movie, Inequality for all, which I
recommend to the extent of absurdity, I tried to answer the questions
he raises, one of them being:
“Is (social) inequality a problem?”
Well, there is no beating around the bush here. Of course, social
inequality is a problem, and facts about income inequality do drive to
action.
But I find the fact that we define some inequalities as inevitable
while fighting to eradicate others, the essence of our problem.
Inequality far all, like many steps towards equality, is a mind-opener,
and one of the reasons you read these words, but it too neglects the
essential part of every group or society – human beings.
The earnings of the typical workers at the top is something that has
no immediate impact over most of our lives, and many of us are not
in the position to plan our personal life ahead.
Allocating efforts to impersonal issues may be a privilege not
everyone can afford, important and beneficial to the future as may be.
Society doesn’t accept people that don’t comply to conformities under the justification that they made bad choices in their lives. In addition, it accuses people who lack motivation, aren’t successful, or not aspiring to be, in being indulged and/or lazy. In other words – a nuisance.
People are supposed to be productive and work hard as a payback for proper incentives, but people are working hard to their deaths, with no incentives other than stepping out of hidden poverty, and still feel they need to compensate Work for not working hard enough.
Never the other way around.
INEQUALITY.
I believe that changing that is the next step in achieving values that are equality-driven like acceptance, belongingness, and equanimity.
I also believe that at the end of the day, this is what most of us want/need.
I think it qualifies for a group.
I want to make a world where you don’t have to think twice before submitting your expectations, and you can be drawn to your organic interests and not be blamed for not aspiring impersonal morals.
A world where you are not obligated to regretting being yourself, and not being rejected for not doing it.
I want a world where what you give matters, and you are not judged by the amount of money you or anybody else bring to a system.
This isn’t a fantasy. It’s just stepping out of the classroom and into the lab.
We have utilized our evolution before we knew it existed. We have cultured every aspect of the universe, including space and beyond. We implicated feelings that our whole society is built on.
We know how to do Things.
People have changed societies, and people, for centuries, and will continue doing so forever.
Why won’t the next change be Personal Equality?
Starting with searching for speakers of this language, I head to publish this suggestion.
Next: Contacting Robert Reich and ask to consider including personal equality in the agenda for reducing income-inequality. Combining income and personal equality may answer the pending question What about Us? In terms of hope, and may pave the way for becoming a group, of People.
Peace,
Maayan
InTheBackground
Starry Starry Night - goes well with Equality background. As always, by mistake.
What about Us? - Pink
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So let it be written, So let it be done!
Post aphrodisiac.
Inequality for all - full movie
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Need I explain?
Mind Openers
Anecdote
Starry Night Over the Rhône
"Van Gogh announced and described this composition in a letter to his brother Theo:
Included a small sketch of a 30 square canvas - in short the starry sky painted by night, actually under a gas jet. The sky is aquamarine, the water is royal blue, the ground is mauve. The town is blue and purple. The gas is yellow and the reflections are russet gold descending down to green-bronze.
On the aquamarine field of the sky the Great Bear is a sparkling green and pink, whose discreet paleness contrasts with the brutal gold of the gas. Two colorful figurines of lovers in the foreground.
In reality, the view depicted in the painting faces away from Ursa Major, which is to the north. The foreground indicates heavy rework, wet-in-wet, as soon as the first state was finished.
The letter sketches executed at this time probably are based on the original composition."
(Starry Night Over the Rhône From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
I have a 30 square canvas!
Wonder if you need more than that...
Maybe I should make an experiment out of it?
Updates soon.

EUREKA!
Mind
Openers
plant protection waltz
There is a Hebrew song called Plant Protection Waltz, which basically says "If I were an endangered species, my status was different".
This song, which I know and love all my life, is a green-song that's supposed to educate us about caring for endangered species, but even as a child I thought it's a sad song that shows how much no one cares for you if you are not special.
Naturally, it was in my mind while processing Personal Equality.
It captures something that I'm practically preaching about:
PROTECTING OTHERS IS A VIRTUE.
WE LIVE BY IT.
WE ARE OTHERS.
I tried to find a nice translation but couldn't.
I apologize in advance for any mistreat this song will suffer by me while trying to pass its essence.
I hope publishing it will make up for it.
Gidi Gov and Mazi Cohen at Plant Protection Waltz, written by Naomi Shemer.
נעמי שמר / ואלס להגנת הצומח
כְּבָר פּוֹרְחִים נַרְקִיסִים בִּשְׁמוּרוֹת-הַטֶּבַע
מַרְבַדִּים נִפְרָשִׂים בִּשְׁפֵלַת הַחוֹף
כַּלָּנִית וְכַרכֹּם, אֶלֶף גּוֹן וָצֶבַע
וְהַחֹק שֶׁאוֹמֵר – כָּאן אָסוּר לִקְטֹף
רַק עָלַי אֵין הַחֹק מַשְׁגִּיחַ
רַק עָלַי אִישׁ אֵינוֹ שׁוֹמֵר
לוֹ הָיוּ לִי עָלֵי-גָּבִיעַ
אָז, הָיָה מַצָּבִי אַחֵר
צִפֳּרִים נְדִירוּת כְּבָר דוֹגְרוֹת בַּסֶּלַע
אִילָנוֹת נְדִירִים נִשְׁמָרִים לְחוּד
אַיָּלוֹת נִבְהָלוֹת מִסְתַּכְּלוֹת בַּשֶׁלֶט
בּוֹ כָּתוּב בְּפֵרוּש שֶׁאָסוּר לָצוּד
רַק עָלַי עוֹד לֹא שָׂמוֹ שֶׁלֶט
מִסָּבִיב אֵין לִי כָּל גָּדֵר
לוּ הָיִיתִי, נֹאמַר – אַיֶּלֶת
אָז הָיָה מַצָּבִי אַחֵר!
אֲדוֹנִי, הִזָּהֵר, אַל תִּגַּע בָּאִירִיס
צִבְעוֹנִי-הֶהָרִים הוּא מִחוּץ לַתְּחוּם
כָּל גִּבְעָה נִשָּׂאָה בְּשׁוּלֵי-הָעִיר הִיא
שֶׁטַח בָּר מְגֻּדָּר וְאֵזוֹר רָשׁוּם
– אָז אֲנִי לִפְעָמִים חוֹשֶׁבֶת
כִּי הָיָה זֶה אוּלַי רָצוּי
לוֹ הָיִיתִי נַרְקִיס אוֹ רַקֶּפֶת
אוֹ אֲפִילּוּ אֵיזֶה בֶּן-חָצָב מָצוּי
הִסְתַּכְּלוּ מַה שֶּׁקּוֹרֶה לִי בַּדֶּרֶך
כָּל אֶחָד עוֹבֵר-חוֹטֵף-קוֹטֵף-קוֹלֵעַ לוֹ זֵר
לוֹ הָיִיתִי חַיָּה אוֹ פֶּרַח
אָז הָיָה מַצָּבִי אַחֵר
Naomi Shemer / Plant Protection Waltz
There are narcissus already blooming at the reserves
Carpets are spread at the plains of the coast
Anemone and crocus, thousands shades and colors
And the law that says - No plucking here
Only I am not protected by the law
Only I am not guarded by no one
If only I had sepals
Then my position was other
Endangered birds are already hatching in the rock
Rare trees are kept separated
Alarmed deer are watching the sign
Where it explicitly written you are not to hunt
Only I am yet to be put a sign on
Around me there is no fence
If I were, let's say - a deer
Then my position was other
Mister, be cautious, don't touch the iris
Mountain tulip is off limits
Every elevated hill at the city's fringes is
A wild area fenced and officially registered
Then I sometimes think -
That maybe that would be desired
If I were a narcissus or cyclamen
Or even some common drimia
Watch what occurs to me on the way
Every one passes-snatches-plucks-weaves a bouquet for himself
If I were an animal or a flower
Then my position was other
A surprising fact about this song is that it was written by Shemer back in 1966, in correspondence to the legal overlooking of women that have been sexually harassed.

Introduction to Equality
27/04/2018
If equality could really be a webpage, I would have become an activist years ago.
But being the base for everything, equality can't be degraded into a webpage, or even a website.
While trying to figure out how to say equality in one shot, image, sentence, I realized it can't be done.
It's good though, since speaking of equality might be a little too
much to chew, but mainly since it forces me to focus on what is
really going to be done here at Equality on Latent Bloomers.
This page is designed to carry and display posts and their
supporting data, especially in the field of egalitarianism, but not
just.
On this page will be presented internal and external content and
information in the forms of articles, quotes, images, videos, audios,
websites, testimonials, attributes, references, links and interactive
elements.
Topics regarding equality that I have been dealing with and will,
surely, be discussed here, include:
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Discrimination (lots of types to choose, please be patient)
Still new to activism, and not even sure which type I belong to
(if at all), I can only assure regarding these topics:
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Craftivism
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Voluntary simplicity
I offer you a place where equality does exist, and I offer it to
you in the best ways I can think of, while learning how to get
better at this.
Join the journey. Get active or just absorb.
You are always welcome and needed.
InTheBackground
Derives from hours of words hunting.
InTheBackground
Nice interpretation.
"The song is about asserting yourself and reclaiming your humanity through an act of love."
Land of confusion - Genesis
INEQUALITY FOR ALL - Official Trailer
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Sources
People
Websites
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Videos
Images
Out of April17equality brainprism, 18.04.2018
"Now, I want it to speak equality, but I don’t want it to be missionary. I want to present what I think in regards to some issue. Like presenting equality, definition, what has been done and made in that field. Is it really a field of study? Do we… no… show that when we talk… when people talk os equality, they are actually talking of inequality. Show how the talk is of inequality. Why does it matter?"
EUREKA! Mind Openers Inspirations
History of =
The etymology of the word "equal" is from the Latin word "æqualis" as meaning "uniform", "identical", or "equal", from aequus ("level", "even", or "just").
The first use of an equals sign, equivalent to 14x+15=71 in modern notation. From The Whetstone of Witteby Robert Recorde.
Recorde's introduction of "="
The "=" symbol that is now universally accepted in mathematics for equality was first recorded by Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde in The Whetstone of Witte (1557). The original form of the symbol was much wider than the present form. In his book Recorde explains his design of the "Gemowe lines" (meaning twin lines, from the Latin gemellus):
And to auoide the tediouſe repetition of theſe woordes : is equalle to : I will ſette as I doe often in woorke vſe, a paire of paralleles, or Gemowe lines of one lengthe, thus: =, bicauſe noe .2. thynges, can be moare equalle.
And to avoid the tedious repetition of these words: is equal to: I will set as I do often in work use, a pair of parallels, or Gemowe lines of one length, thus: =, because no 2 things, can be more equal.
According to Scotland's University of St Andrews History of Mathematics website:
The symbol '=' was not immediately popular. The symbol || was used by some and æ (or œ), from the Latin word aequalis meaning equal, was widely used into the 1700s.
Personal Names
A possibly unique case of the equals sign of European usage in a person's name, specifically in a double-barreled name, was by pioneer aviator Alberto Santos=Dumont, as he is also known not only to have often used an equals sign (=) between his two surnames in place of a hyphen, but also seems to have personally preferred that practice, to display equal respect for his father's French ethnicity and the Brazilian ethnicity of his mother
(Wikipedia)






