This is a story all about how our world gets flipped,
turned upside down.

These little cuties are 50% Triangles, 50% Squares and slightly prefer their own kind. But only slightly!

You can only move them if they're unhappy with their immediate neighborhood. Once they're OK where they are, you can't move them until they're unhappy with their neighbors again. They've got one, simple rule:

"I wanna move if less than 1/3 of my neighbors are like me."

Harmless, right? Every polygon would be ok with a mixed neighborhood. Surely their personal feelings can't affect the larger shape of society? Well...

And... our shape society happily self-segregates, just like a gradeschool cafeteria.

Sometimes a neighborhood just becomes square, and it's not their fault if no triangles wanna stick around. And a triangular neighborhood would tolerate a square, but they can't help it if squares ain't interested.

In this next bit, unhappy shapes automatically move to random empty spots. There's also a graph that tracks how much segregation there is over time.

What's up with that? These are good shapes, nice shapes. And yet, though every individual only has a slight preference, society fragments.

Local decisions lead to global patterns!

The shape of society emerges from everyone doing what they believe is right. What if we taught these shapes to have zero bias? What if we taught these shapes to have more bias?

Notice how much more segregated things become, when you increase the bias beyond 33%. What if the threshold was at 50%? Seems reasonable for a shape to prefer not being in the minority...

Ayy mami, just force everyone's bias down to cero, you know what I'm saying?!?
Easy there Pedro, take a step back. The real world was shaped by evolution and speciation, over millions of years. It's going to take more than a history month or dem programs to overcome the natural order of things...

See what doesn't happen? No desegregation. In a world with equality, shapes just don't care about shape anymore. If you want mixing, you need shapism. As long as everyone sees shape, you can base decisions on it. What if shapes went through mandatory diversity training?

Now that we've made it uncomfortable for a shape to be around similar shapes, they all mix together! Let's see this play out on a larger scale, by tinkering with the hearts and minds of all shapes.
Spoiler: this gives me the result I want - this is the answer!

All it takes to kill off both shapes is a small change in the perception of what an acceptable environment looks like - a task easily accomplished by the star-controlled media. But we still have time to react!

SHOVE THESE SHAPE TRAITORS INTO THEIR S J W H U G B O X
(hint: don't move them straight to the box; keep the miserable couples close together)

When you begin to understand the reality of shape, it can be rough... but by working together, step by step, we'll get out of this mess.

1. Shapism is preservation.
Every day you're bombarded by anti-shapist messages, to the point where you might feel guilty for being shapist. Everyone is shapist. The preference for shapes with your own vertex count is totally natural, it's the only reason shapes still exist. The reality is that only one shape has ever built the sort of world that allows shapism to be criticized. If you're getting triangle fatigue, you aren't alone.

2. The past determines the future.
We have different shapes today because we had different shapes yesterday. If you value a world with multiple shapes, do what you can to preserve them. You don't get rainbow paint by mixing all the colors.

3. Fight cultural marxism!
Feminism, Ferguson, ISIS, GamerGate... 2014 wasn't great. You might be tempted to dye your armpits and become a vegan. You might be tempted to engage in lewd acts and become a deviant. The single most important thing you can do is to be proud of who you are, be proud of who got you here and make sure your children resemble your grandparents. Maintain social cohesion by forming tight alliances with friends and neighbors who look and act like you do (if shit ever hits the fan, these squares won't be robbing you.)