What Is Ingrained Oppression?

The freedom of religion has been a cause for revolt, if not allowed by a government. Once a religion is established as the majority in a state, it often seeks to oppress those who do not belong, because they are considered inferior/the other.

The roots of oppression; a judgmental attitude, is the currency of our society today------That is because it basically fulfills a very human need to belong, to feel superior due to our primate social nature.

Bud Oracle

Date Posted: 05/05/08

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Oppression comes in various degrees, forms and practices but speaks to a common human condition. Due to a primate social urge to belong to the troop and define ourselves as not "the other," those whose habits, skin color, dress are different are the targets of convenience.

Today we fling that word around as if people really understood what it means. Not many do. Oppression is so casual and insidious (ingrained) that it escapes most people’s awareness.

When someone turns their nose up, or makes any action, at anyone else, because they feel that the other is doing something not acceptable to them, this could be labeled the crux of oppression.

I feel it is part of our social character as a species to oppress anyone who doesn’t conform to the socially accepted norm. Any reason can be fabricated for this, drugs, alcohol, poor clothing, homelessness, skin color culture-you name it. It matters not what the reason for the oppressive action, even a disapproving glance, to be brought forth is.That is, because it basically fulfills a very common human need to belong, to feel superior due to our primate social nature.

The roots of oppression; a judgmental attitude, is the currency of our society today. Even alcoholics can indulge in it and feel themselves superior to marijuana smokers, because the law says they can hang their judgmental attitude on these “drug users” legally, because we have entrenched oppression into the criminal laws..

The Science points to our ancestors IQ level at about 50 points as compared to today’s measure; A Dummy's Guide to Intelligence Dr. Flynn, http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/archives/07-08/may03.html

No wonder they got it wrong when the temperance people decided to oppress certain races on their substance use. They were very small minded in their understanding of addiction, criminal enterprise and human nature.

The fact is, we must become enlightened if we want progress in the plague created by Moralizing church goers of last century. Canadians would do well to realize that we are in conflict with our own human nature when we make laws which target others with our judgment.