‘We Need to Talk about How We Learn to Accept Our Own Oppression’

We need to talk about ‘socialisation’, and how we are instructed, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, to accept our own oppression, and to not ‘make a fuss’.

HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Human Wrongs Watch


By Nina Power*

27 January 2018 (openDemocracy)* — The more women stand up against bullies and harassment in our personal lives, the less we will tolerate them in our political lives too.

Credit: Ammar Abu Bakr/TNI State of Power report 2018.

It should have been impossible for Donald Trump to become president of the United States. Even those Republicans who thought he might have defended their political interests surely saw what a terrible idea it would be to have him in charge of anything, be it his Twitter account or the nuclear codes. Why did they not organise in secret and make it impossible for him to win the nomination, let alone the election?

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