Social Justice and Peace Studies 1025F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: White Privilege, Male Privilege, Meritocracy
14 Dec 2018
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Socljust 1025f lesson 7 structural oppression & racism. 1st main point: there are different kinds of oppression, but no one central or essential type. 2nd main point: oppression is often a structural thing. Not about the individual tyrants; but a social relation; based on societal structures, social norms, cultural, conventions, etc. White privilege is an example of the social structure oppression. 20-year old undergrad at princeton, tal fortgang, wrote an article entitled why i"ll. Being told to check your privilege, made him upset. Dowsett: i ride my bike in a city that is very car friendly & very bike unfriendly. Riding a bike in a car city is hard. Some drivers are jerks, yell at me or try to splash me. People i have never met are angry for me being on their road. Issue isn"t really an individual problem, more like a structural one.
