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the comforting lie that sameness equals fairness, when it usually just hides who's missing
means The state of everything being the same, consistent, or unvarying — whether in form, rule, appearance, or behavior.
from From Latin 'uniformis,' literally 'having one form': 'unus' (one) plus 'forma' (shape, form). It reached English through Old French 'uniformité' by the 15th century, carrying that root sense of many things pressed into a single mold — one shape stamped over all.
- factory roots
- Mass production demanded interchangeable parts and interchangeable people
- physics warning
- A perfectly uniform universe would have no stars
- crop disaster
- Genetic uniformity caused the 1840s Irish potato famine
- military origin
- Same word as uniform: dressing soldiers to erase individuals
- clone fragility
- Identical bananas are dying to one global fungus
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