Oppression is the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner. It can also be defined as an act or instance of oppressing, the state of being oppressed, and the feeling of being heavily burdened, mentally or physically, by troubles, adverse conditions, and anxiety.

Oppression is a popular topic in debates, such as in the QDU league in secondary schools. This article is often used to assist in defining oppression.

Contents

• 1 Social oppression
• 2 Systematic oppression
• 3 Internalized oppression
• 4 Indirect oppression
• 5 Resistance
• 6 See also
• 7 References
• 8 Further reading
• 9 External links

Social oppression

The systematic, socially supported mistreatment and exploitation of a group or category of people by another.

Verb

to oppress (third-person singular simple present oppresses, present participle oppressing, simple past and past participle oppressed)

1. (obsolete) Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.x:

     Most mercilesse of women, VVyden hight, / Her other sonne fast sleeping did oppresse, / And with most cruell hand him murdred pittilesse.

2. (transitive) To keep down by force

   The rural poor were oppressed by the land-owners.

3. (transitive) To make sad or gloomy

   We were oppressed by the constant grey skies.

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