Oppression in Culture

In class on tuesday we talked about oppression and how to define it in our society today. One of the particularly interesting things we talked about was how privilege was connected to oppression. Often we do not acknowledge our own privileges and so oppression of those around us can be hard to recognize. This can make the oppressed feel even more so and the privileged can participate in oppression without even realize it. This makes you think, by not acknowledging our privileges we can actually be contributing to the oppression of those around us. In order to break this cycle of oppression we must acknowledge what separates the privileged from the oppressed. Once the oppression is acknowledged then we can move to trying to end it.