The Four I's of Oppression

After reading through this detailed and specific passage on an eye-opening way to view the world's systemic problems, I selected three quotes I feel cover the author's points in its fullest capacity...

                  

"The antidote to internalized oppression is to participate in liberatory learning—education that accurately accounts for historical injustices and is rooted in anti-oppression values–and collective consciousness-raising with accountable self-reflection to identify what beliefs are harming oneself or others" (2)

Thoughts: In order to move past the faults of history, we must outline the issues that were caused by the behaviors of oppressors. By teaching the wrongs of those before us, those after us can have a much better grasp on how the world used to work, how it should work, and how to make it work in such a way.

"Interpersonal oppression has the most personal effects, but accountability and change require
identifying the root cause of the harm"  (4)

Thoughts: Although an extremely common idea brought up in texts such as these, it is, in my own opinion, probably the single most important introductory step into true permanent change in all our society's imbalances. To have those who do the wrong, whether intentional or not, live up to it and become educated on their own faults, we begin to strangle the issue as its roots and avoid the trickle-down effects like those we deal with today.

Oppressive ideological value systems do not remain dormant but express themselves at the individual, interpersonal, and social level through violence"  (2)

Thoughts: When a person whole-heartedly believes in something, whether that be political, religious, moral, etc, they tend to stop at nothing to live to their own truth. That does not change with those who continue to bear racist and homophobic pretenses. Active anti-inclusivity groups still hold meetings and exercise their beliefs on a normal basis, fortunately not nearly to the extreme as centuries past, but they are not to be dismissed.