Examples Of Reverse Oppression

Oppression is a significant issue that has been growing in discourse as of late. As time progresses, the way people are treated and the opinions they hold change. When there is a group of people who have their rights changed, it will cause other groups to believe they are being cheated out of chances the privileges those people are allowed access to. While this may be accurate in rare cases, it is also difficult to argue strongly on the side of the people who have been, and still are considered to be in positions of power. Discrimination is an entirely different realm than systematic oppression, and people who are in these positions of power would simply not be able to experience these things. Examples that are becoming widely known to the …show more content…
However, these are each the groups of people who face the least amount of oppression. Minorities could face life threatening danger if they were to discriminate against someone in a position of power. By way of example, a black man would not refuse sales to a white man in his store, nor would a gay man would not refuse to bake a wedding cake for a straight couple. Additionally, a transgender woman would not prevent a cisgender person cannot buy the clothes they want at her store. This could endanger them, whether it be physically or by severe scrutiny of people of the …show more content…
Affirmative Action is a bad example, but it as one solid example that a lot of people have heard of. Affirmative Action is an idea that was taken further than it needed to go, and if it had been done well it could have been beneficial to people of minorities. If Affirmative Action or any other program like it had focused more on financing people of minorities who had less money for college, or looking closer at the real test scores, grades, and accomplishments of everyone, things would be easier and it could be possible that people would be more comfortable with the idea. Instead, people focus on the negative, and talk about the fact that more people of the majority are “missing out on opportunities” or that minorities are “taking advantage of the government’s programs and