Oppression Olympics: An Analysis

In Hancock’s Introduction to her book Solidarity Politics for Millennials, she talks about the Oppression Olympics and the five problems that are created by these Olympics. The five problems that are identified in her introduction are Leapfrog Paranoia, Willful Blindness, Movement Backlash, Defiant Ignorance, and Compassion Deficit Disorder. Oppression Olympics is considered a societal social game that is played among people of different race, gender, and age. In these so called games, these particular groups of people feel the need to compete for oppression. Which basically means which person has it the worse because of their race, gender, or age. In these societal social games known as the Oppression Olympics there are five different stages
of this competition, which stretches across a period of about five days. The first stage of this competition is called leapfrog paranoia, which is the fear or belief that a group will come in and take over as the most troubled or burdened, leaving your group behind there’s. Meaning the most troubled group jump’s a head of yours taking the lead for most troubled. This will then lead us into the second competition which is willful blindness. Willful blindness is failing to see the strengths that your group has to offer. Which means the group chooses not to see it’s strength’s or is blind to its strength, but sees its weaknesses in plain sight. During the third competition we will see something that is called movement backlash, this is where we will be seeing a lot of reverse discrimination and hostility towards equality.