{"id":1923,"date":"2015-03-04T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T01:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1923"},"modified":"2015-03-04T17:08:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T01:08:21","slug":"oppression-gross-subtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1923","title":{"rendered":"Oppression, Gross & Subtle"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have just given a series of talks on oppression, my last one being posted on my website<\/a>. Certainly the theme is a relevant challenge in our world today. Though I acknowledge grosser forms, my focus was on more subtle types. We’ve had a revolution of rising expectations, more and more sub-groups identifying and rebelling against various sub-types of marginalization. In contrast, more groups are self-empowering, noting types of privilege, working to raise consciousness.<\/p>\n

In the olden days when I was a young man it was all right, even expected, to make fun of "out-groups." As a lad who was raised Jewish, I objected to prejudice. This was a popular word in the 50s and 60s, and in California it was cool to not be prejudiced. Yet there were many sub-groups who were marginalized. (That was a word not known then.) It\u2019s not that we were prejudiced against them, but worse: They didn’t exist; I had never heard of this group—or at least not to speak of. <\/p>\n

In the last 70 years much has changed and much is changing, including the variety of sub-groups who I never even knew existed as a teenager. My preparing for a lecture on oppression heightened my appreciation even more for the need for self-empowerment for more and more groups. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have just given a series of talks on oppression, my last one being posted on my website. Certainly the theme is a relevant challenge in our world today. Though I acknowledge grosser forms, my focus was on more subtle types. We’ve had a revolution of rising expectations, more and more sub-groups identifying and rebelling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,11,32,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-literacy","category-social-depth-psychology-sociometry","category-wisdom-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1924,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions\/1924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}