An academic euphemism for first world inequality of outcome; an exaggeration that by comparison minimizes actual suffering, bondage, torture, and totalitarian control.
Although Fatima was still recovering from the non consensual genital mutilation she received by the hands of her village leader, she was glad that liberal arts students in the US weren't suffering the oppression of culturally insensitive Halloween costumes following their successful email campaign to the dean.
by Majikkutepu April 14, 2017
Get the Oppression mug.1. An extremely unbalanced system of power in which a group of people is being discriminated against; typically found in dictatorships such as Nazi Germany or North Korea. Examples of oppression include slavery in the United States, the Jewish genocide carried out by Adolf Hitler, and the treatment of every single person in Soviet Russia except for its leader. Oppression can have serious consequences, but, most importantly, it can lead to enormous suffering and immense loss of life. The truly disgusting things that oppression has lead to are to be learned from. Don’t live in the past, but learn from it.
2. Someone saying a mean word on the internet.
2. Someone saying a mean word on the internet.
John: your dumb
Izzy, he/her, feminist, marxist, fuck capitalism, lgbt: OMG wtf!!! Reported! This is oppression!
Holocaust Survivor: It was horrible, Stevie. The way they treated us, in the camps. I remember, me and some fellow survivors were handed a rotting rat corpse. Its decaying flesh was green and all that was left on its bones were scraps of meat. We ate through it like wild animals. I remember, 3 weeks later, we were starving for that rat meat...
Stevie: Oh gosh, Papa! That’s horrific!
Holocaust Survivor: It really was oppression, and tyranny, evil even, in their purest forms.
Izzy, he/her, feminist, marxist, fuck capitalism, lgbt: OMG wtf!!! Reported! This is oppression!
Holocaust Survivor: It was horrible, Stevie. The way they treated us, in the camps. I remember, me and some fellow survivors were handed a rotting rat corpse. Its decaying flesh was green and all that was left on its bones were scraps of meat. We ate through it like wild animals. I remember, 3 weeks later, we were starving for that rat meat...
Stevie: Oh gosh, Papa! That’s horrific!
Holocaust Survivor: It really was oppression, and tyranny, evil even, in their purest forms.
by NotPieGuy January 18, 2021
Get the Oppression mug.The unjust keeping down of others by force... in today's and past societies people were opressed by RACISM as well as violence. One of the main factors of oppresion is human nature and it's regulation...?
the oppression of a people by a tyrant during a monarchy along with the oppression of blacks during the times of slavery
by Regina1 August 2, 2006
Get the oppression mug.Oppression is using your position as an anchor on a cable news show to assert that an imaginary, gift-giving elf modeled after a Christian saint from Turkey is white in order to prevent people from being more inclusive. -daily show
by kappavgk December 19, 2013
Get the Oppression mug.term that describes but rejects as false the phenomenon whereby activists against prejudice towards one group will attempt to position that prejudice as "worse" than the prejudice faced by another group
by Allison Amy December 9, 2008
Get the Oppression Olympics mug.Oppression Olympics is the tactic used by Alt-Leftists in Western society that's used to silence people who are "privileged", attempting to render their qualms useless. The pecking order (Bottom to top) goes:
White straight men, black straight men, white straight women, white gay men, white gay women, black gay men, white transsexuals FtM, white transsexuals MtF, black straight women, black gay women, black transsexuals FtM, black transsexuals MtF.
Although the tactic is used by Alt-Leftists, the term is used by those who oppose it.
White straight men, black straight men, white straight women, white gay men, white gay women, black gay men, white transsexuals FtM, white transsexuals MtF, black straight women, black gay women, black transsexuals FtM, black transsexuals MtF.
Although the tactic is used by Alt-Leftists, the term is used by those who oppose it.
Person 1: "You know, I'm not huge on this new obsession with teaching African history to students over the Roman Empire"
Person 2: "Well lucky you're a white guy so your opinion is not required"
Person 1: "I ain't playing this Oppression Olympics shit with you, man."
Person 2: "Well lucky you're a white guy so your opinion is not required"
Person 1: "I ain't playing this Oppression Olympics shit with you, man."
by Opoisredkkvrov June 7, 2021
Get the Oppression Olympics mug.The act of behaving as if the most minor inconvenience, change in behavior, or act of equity is discriminatory or abuse, in order to obfuscate the actual abuse suffered by marginalized groups.
Bob: “I refuse to use that trans person’s new name! You are denying my free speech! This is tyranny!
Everyone: “This is oppression LARPing… ROBERT.”
Everyone: “This is oppression LARPing… ROBERT.”
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