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Oppression is a form of injustice that occurs when one social group is subordinated while another is privileged, and oppression is maintained by a variety of different mechanisms including social norms, stereotypes and institutional rules.
- Tom Head
- Sexism. Sexism, or the belief that cisgender men are superior to cisgender women on the basis of sex, has been an almost universal condition of civilization.
- Heterosexism. Heterosexism describes the pattern in which people are assumed to be heterosexual. Since not everybody is heterosexual, the outliers may be punished with ridicule, restriction of partnership rights, discrimination, arrest, and even death.
- Cisgenderism or Cisnormativity. Cisgender refers to people whose gender identity is typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth. Cisgenderism or cisnormativity is a form of oppression that assumes that everyone who is assigned male at birth exists as a man and everyone who is assigned female at birth exists as a woman.
- Classism. Classism is a social pattern in which wealthy or influential people congregate with each other and oppress those who are less wealthy or less influential.
Apr 27, 2012 · No, the only situation in which human rights could truly obtain would be one where an independent global judiciary, duly and constitutionally constituted by the sovereign will of all humanity,...
Jul 28, 2020 · Oppression is unique to each person, and the perception and its effects are wholly different and varied from place to place. What remains common, however, is the recurrent theme of the remembrance that one does not quite belong, or should not belong in their uniquely human way.
Feb 22, 2024 · I show how three strategies for explaining how oppression reduces freedom either fall into the trap of overgenerality, or end up appealing to values other than freedom to avoid it. I conclude by suggesting that oppression might be better thought of as an affront to equality.
- Serene J. Khader
- Serene.khader@gmail.com
Oppression is the experience of repeated, widespread, systemic injustice. It need not be extreme and involve the legal system (as in slavery, apartheid, or the lack of right to vote) nor violent (as in tyrannical societies).
Oct 10, 2019 · But can they? There are countless examples of past and present monstrous regimes in the real world. And they all raise the question of why people didn’t just rise up against their rulers.
