Oppressed people means people that have been a victim of cruel or unjust treatment that is unfair or prolonged. It could be anything like racism, sexist remarks, etc. The systems of oppression are systems in your daily life that are being used in a hateful and unfair way and it consists of Economic, Social, and Political. The levels of oppression are oppression based on people themselves that is unfair or just cruel to them and it also consists of three things, institutional, Interpersonal, and Internalized. And some ways people can get oppressed by these types of oppression are getting killed or or getting put in jail just because how you did in school.
To start with, One way people get oppressed interpersonally is by getting killed because they you are trying to go to school. A document I read was about the girls in Afghanistan getting killed because they are trying to get an education. The document is an article titled “Acid attacks, poison: What Afghan girls risk by going to school” posted on the website CNN.com. It was written by Allie Torgan on March 17, 2016. A quote from the document states,”It is heartbreaking to see the way these terrorists treat … women,” said Jan, 68. “In their eyes, a women is an object that they can control. They are scared that when these girls get an education, they will become aware of their rights as women and as a human being.” To explain Afghanistan terrorist are killing innocent girls because they are scared that they would be aware of their rights. They mistreating by killing, blowing up schools, and throwing acid at the girls faces. Its an example of interpersonal oppression because they are mistreating a group of people and trying to control them, and they are saying that they are the dominant group even though nobody should be dominant.
Secondally, a way that people get oppressed institutionally is by going into prison just because they were bad in school, especially the youth. A document I read was about the school-to-prison pipeline, a system or process that pushes kids like me out of school into Prison because they break enforced rules. This is a quote from an article on a website called thoughtco.com. The article is titled “Understanding the School-to-Prison Pipeline” and it was written by by Nicki Lisa Cole, Ph.D. on April 25, 2017. A quote form the document states,”.. it is a process of criminalizing youth that is carried out by disciplinary policies within schools that put students into contact with law enforcement. Once they are put into contact with law enforcement for disciplinary reasons, many are then pushed out of the educational environment and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems.” To explain, if you do bad in school and you don’t follow the “rules and disciplinaries” law enforcement judges you how likely you are going to drop out and go to prison, and this is a problem because kids are getting pushed out and actually going to jail. And this is institutional oppression because they are mistreating a group of people with rules and disciplinaries by kicking them out of school, lose all of their academic process, and putting the kids that dropout of school in prison