Question

The defining features of oppression are that it is: pervasive, restrictive, hierarchical, complex across relationships, and internalized. a) Define these terms, and discuss how we have been socialized to accept systems of oppression as normal. b) Share an example of a system, organization, group, etc. that is oppressive in your opinion. This can be one in which you have worked, one you have experienced as a customer, or which you have otherwise experienced or observed. If you don't have an example that you can personally reflect upon, you may choose one that you know of from past research or from current events.

Answer 1

We learn to embrace the usual form of opression

We do so through day-to-day contact with classrooms, mosques, churches, meetings with hospitals, interacting with mortgage agents, by cab drivers, and cops.

We can not know how profoundly rooted these rules, laws, and principles allow in this country to continue business as normal but they do.

We are born into a social environment that encourages us to embrace stuff as it is.

We're praised for having embraced things as they are.
We're commended for embracing items as they are.
When we embrace things as they are we are "normal members of society."

When we embrace things as they are, we obtain confort, money, relationships and power. Those who go against the flow, pay the price I know when you hear this a small voice deep in your heart is saying "I don't oppress men" This may be accurate, you might not consciously oppress anyone- but this is the truth- injustice is already occurring as this process and the institutions they help tend to run unchecked.

Oppression is the rule, rather than the case.
The difference is fairness and not the rule.

Organizations impact organizations over people and entities.

That cycle is omnipresent, constant, repetitive, self-perpetuating and invisible.

It's nothing that is easiest to do.

Yet we refused to understand that by doing so we were actually partners in our own injustice.

This country's institutions / systems aren't flawed, they are doing just as they were supposed to do.

They do not get updated. They ought to be decommissioned.

Will you bear blame for the continued oppression? Are you going to get up and confront systems, rules and norms?

Why, when, and whether you face discrimination becomes meaningless, as long as you are doing so.

You and I are accountable for taking down inequality. We are responsible for having it removed. We are in need of developing innovative structures and methods of distributing social power.

Society isn't changing itself. We need to cut off the hooks.

We will all pay the price for this to happen.

I believe the rich are always applying opposing rule on the poors.

I have seen cases in Mexico where social crimes are at such a rate that one can not even think of growing up without any issues of going against cartels. Where the spouse of the cartels are generally studying abroad and leading a happy life, the men who are fighting for them are always being opressed. It's those people are are laying off life for them and yet their family is leading a misarable life. So, what can be a better example than Mecian social system.