"It's easy to think that social problems must come down to flaws in individual character. If we have a drug problem, it must be because individuals just can't or won't say "no." If there are racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism, and other forms of privilege and oppression, it must be because of people who for some reason have the personal "need" to behave in racist, sexist, and other oppressive ways" (9-10).This is a very basic way to explain how individualism exists in multiple systems of oppression and how it infiltrates every aspect of our lives. From here, it is easy to see how one could entirely miss the systematic nature of oppression and how it stretches beyond merely the occasionally blip of a psychopath in an otherwise neutral sea of humanity. It is easy to say that everyone is inherently good, to shift the question of oppression from a larger system and onto an individual, making conversations about oppressive systems easily derailed. Especially when conversation turns to internalized racism, sexism and so on, which are harder to detect because they slip under the radar that spotlights mouthpiece bigots (most famously, politicians). Focusing on these people is pointless when trying to dismantle the entire system.
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