Friday, February 27, 2009
Unrealized privaleges and STI's
In her article Peggy McIntosh talks about over priviledged classes in our society and how they impact those that they are opressing. While the oppressors might not be intentionally doing this on purpose, the reality is that it is still happening. Although i believe she is right on this point i will dissagree with the fact that she says that priviledged people shouldnt try and make it equal but also strip themselves of these priviledges for it to be equal. These kinds of systems of oppression greatly impact the wareness, spread, and treatment of STI's along with other contractable diseases. These systems make it extremely hard to make treatment or other benefits that priviledged classes have available to the other classes. To really progress in stopping STI's spread throughout the world the systems of oppressions need to be dismanteled and forgotten about.
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I agree. Instead of bitching about what sucks, we need to put our energy instead into systems that benefit the needy. If we are in a place where we can judge, than we are in a place where we can make a difference, so lets do THAT instead of complaining about what isn't fair.
ReplyDeleteIt is important to realize that although the oppressors do not do this on purpose, it still happens. It will be hard to make enough changes in society to accommodate for all of the different minorities that America has. It will honestly almost be impossible. I do agree though that our current state does make it more difficult for minorities in our country to get adequate health care and treatment of STIs.
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