When People Are Privileged Equality Feels Like Oppression

It is easy to view a certain group as favored or deserving when society highlights them as privileged. We live in a world that segregates according to gender, class, race, sexual preference, and religion causing the recipients to pretend that the benefits bestowed on them have been earned as opposed to engineered in their favor. As long as systemic privilege exists, equality cannot. Truth is, when people are privileged, equality feels like oppression.

Oppression describes the ways in which dominant groups organize, often without conscious intent, to protect their position of dominance. This may seem like a strong word to people who have never been aware of experiencing it, but it is what it is and I make no apologies for that. Oppression means limiting others choices through coercion. It can take many different forms, not just the … click HERE to continue reading