George Lakoff, a Berkeley cognitive science and linguistics professor, explained that "'inequality' has a problem because people aren't equal.'" In other words, people are not the same and if we are opposing inequality, it would seem that we are arguing for its opposite, everyone being equal.
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But throughout his career, he used the precision of language to oppose social inequality, defy despots worldwide ("Stand up against governments, against God," he once wrote), and assist people to accept their own eccentricities, helping to heal human suffering in whatever form he found it.
That opposing racial inequality means throwing poor white people under the bus.
What about the other possible flaw in the new report that it downplays the link between income (as opposed to inequality) and health?
Protesters, whose campaign opposed financial inequality, had wanted officials at Trinity to let them occupy the church-owned property but the request was refused.
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Despite affirming that the individual is the fundamental unit of moral concern, he still opposes defining inequalities in health across individuals.
So defenders of the charge appear to be committed to the falsifiable thesis that egalitarians are inconsistent in their commitment to inequality.[21] If the charge were true, egalitarians should oppose only the inequalities that are unfavorable to their own interests.
As a result, another set of strategies are required, and what we are now seeing in the Occupy Movement is precisely the development of a set of strategies that call attention to, and oppose, the reproduction of inequality.
