The article "The Bravest Girl in the world" in the upfront magazine is about a young girl who spoke out for girls having the right to go to school and learn. The girl's name was Malala Yousafzai and she was openly speaking about girls in Pakistan gaining the right to go to school. The Taliban did not agree with her views and on her way to school, the Taliban shot her. They shot her because of her gender and her views on the subject. They purposefully discriminated her gender so they could stay superior, showing how people do not care that other types of people are equal to them and that they deserved to be treated equally.
Inequality is a terrible thing that people who are different should not have to suffer through. This story is one of the many that show how unfair it is, and the issues that every type of different or discriminated against person is having around the world. In my life, everyone goes to school, but that is not true about all of the people around the world and it should be like that. This story shows the horror of discrimination through Malala's eyes and from a fair lens of the way the shooting worked. You learn about how unfair things are in Pakistan, and how people are denied some of the most basic rights.
Discrimination starts when a group of people want to feel and be more powerful than a different type of person, and they start to try to achieve that goal. However, the group of people really aren't better than all of the other people who are out there, they are just trying to convince themselves of it. Frances Wright said "Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it." If we claim to give everybody liberty, then we should all be considered equal.
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