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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 unvaryingwhether 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 moldone shape stamped over all.

factory rootsMass production demanded interchangeable parts and interchangeable people
physics warningA perfectly uniform universe would have no stars
crop disasterGenetic uniformity caused the 1840s Irish potato famine
military originSame word as uniform: dressing soldiers to erase individuals
clone fragilityIdentical bananas are dying to one global fungus
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