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Oppression By Spencer Summary
Spencer’s Main Thesis

Spencer’s thesis in this article focuses on basis and how his social identity was affected by oppression, privilege and power. Spencer’s ideas were based on self-reflection of experiences and understanding his social identity by thinking; Who am I. As he made different standpoints of challenges, he faced such things as objectifying and subordinating women, the privilege of being light skin, or his sexual orientation by being able to identify the male/female binary; his experience brought awareness to social injustice behavior that targets groups of people being oppressed.

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Oppression is ill will or cruel treatment toward a group. An oppressor is someone who instills fear and has control

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