equality – thoughts on mind

Give trans people a chance

(Note to reader: this is an ally’s opinion) The Gay Agenda in action Around the turn of the millennium, gay marriage became a serious national issue in the US. Opposition to it came from the social and political right. Fundamentally, the opposition was based in homophobia, the tendency to feel fear, discomfort and disgust towards…

Humoring questions (4th in a series of sovereign citizens)

This post is part of a series beginning with The conspiracy theory that revolves around wordplay about the so-called “sovereign citizen” movement. As a reminder, they don’t usually call themselves sovereign citizens, but I will use that label because it is the one generally accepted among outsiders like myself. In the previous post in this…

Equality, equity, equivalence, identity, indistinguishability, isomorphism, resemblance, congruence, and similarity

While the title of this post might as well be a thesaurus entry, my purpose here is to investigate the differences between these concepts and how they operate in different contexts. Mathematical equality The reader is almost certainly very familiar with the equals sign or = used in math. Many of us first encounter it…