Oppression Olympics: An Analysis

In Hancock’s Introduction to her book Solidarity Politics for Millennials, she talks about the Oppression Olympics and the five problems that are created by these Olympics. The five problems that are identified in her introduction are Leapfrog Paranoia, Willful Blindness, Movement Backlash, Defiant Ignorance, and Compassion Deficit Disorder. Oppression Olympics is considered a societal social game that is played among people of different race, gender, and age. In these so called games, these particular groups of people feel the need to compete for oppression. Which basically means which person has it the worse because of their race, gender, or age. In these societal social games known as the Oppression Olympics there are five different stages