i picked up a copy of #IjeomaOluo's #BeARevolution today and thought this quote was realy good

When giving talks or interviews, I'm often presented with a variation of the same question:

• Is this is a feminist issue?
• Is this a racial issue?
• What about class?

All of these questions are asking the same thing: "What box can I fit this oppression into?"
[...] But oppression doesn't fit neatly into boxes. And if you think it does, that's likely your privilege talking. Privilege is meant to be invisible to those who have it. Often when systems that are difficult or oppressive for others seem to be working just fine for us, they are working for us because they were designed for us - at the expense of others. Privilege is also relative. That means that one aspect of our identity may be oppressed by a particular system, while another aspect may give us privilege over others, and we may fail to recognize the different ways in which the same system can be harming others.

#Racism #AntiRacism #Bookstodon #Privilege #Oppression