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Oppression

• Oppression is the use of power to disempower, marginalize, silence or otherwise subordinate one social group or category, often in order to further empower and/or privilege the oppressor. Social oppression may not require formally established organizational support to achieve its desired effect; it may be applied on a more informal, yet more focused, individual basis.

  - The Anti-Oppression Network

  (ex. wage/pay gaps, microaggressions, sexism in the workplace, stop-and-frisk)

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