“I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.”—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Rhetoric FAQs What is rhetoric? Rhetoric is language ...
The three levels of oppression—interpersonal, institutional, and internalized—are linked with each other and all three feed off of and reinforce each other. In other words, all three levels of oppression work together to maintain a state of oppression. What is the cause of oppression? Oppressi...
“This oppression, combined with efforts to eradicate queer people from the police, military and civil service, blighted and distorted lives for decades – to this day, in fact – despite the eventual change of direction by government. Cruel and exclusionary legislation was gradually repealed, and...
Heidegger invites all people to compassionately question their choices in order to gain greater insights, grow, and be aware of internalized and systemic oppression. "The way we show up sexually and relationally is affected by the systems in which we exist; therefore, sometimes we just accept th...
or power-seeking oppression, but it will never produce a true reform in ways of thinking. Instead, new prejudices, like the ones they replaced, will serve as a leash to control the great unthinking mass. For enlightenment of this kind, all that is needed is freedom. And the freedom in ...
Of course, this is just a metaphor. What I mean is working harder and producing more. I mean, it is not much of a hindrance for me. Perhaps it is because I faced many obstacles throughout my career and had to overcome them. Thus, instead of wasting time on obstacles, I move on...
Under DEI, one’s degree of oppression is determined based upon where one resides on a so-called intersectional pyramid of oppression where whites, Jews, and Asians are deemed oppressors, and a subset of people of color, LGBTQ people, and/or women are deemed to be oppressed. Under this id...
manufacturers or lobbying groups. Such an approach understands guns as both denotative entities made of real mass and that draw real blood, and as connotative cyphers whose associations trigger themes such as protection, danger, safety, identity, race, gender, class, erotics, oppression, or ...
(gender) oppression, have a particularly deep investment in being ‘good’ white people" and their feminism is rooted in the connection between whiteness and innocence. And this white feminist innocence is "prioritised in order to maintain and legitimate the continued centring of white women within...
Howe notes that gender studies is similar to ethnic studies in its focus on the distribution of power in society and its examination of "the systems of privilege and oppression." Taryn A. Myers, an associate professor of psychology atVirginia Wesleyan Universitywho teaches women's and gender stu...