# When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression Created On: 06-18-2023 08:24 am Up:: [[Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) (MOC)]] Tags:: #note/evergreen🌲 Topics:: Related:: --- In the search for equity and equality between the [[Societal minority]] and the [[Societal majority]], the latter often tends to feel as though they're losing something - that, in turn, and clearly ironically, *they feel as though they're being oppressed*, not the minority. Here is a visual: imagine if everyone was on variable sized pillars and there were people on low-ends and high-ends of the pillars. In this case, clearly, the high-ended people are the majority and the low end, the minority. In order to raise the low-pillars, you need to take some from the high-pillars. This of course *feels like a loss*, but it doesn't have to be - if we recognize that we're creating equality and that everyone is equal, this reallocation should feel [[Altruism|altruistic]]. This sense of oppression is a one-sided representation of ignorantly suffocated reality. It is a loathsome mindset and is disingenuous at best. It comes forward as an ignorant straw man fallacy that is very closed-minded. It lacks [[Empathy (MOC)]] and [[Humility]] and offense is taken where it should not be - the minority makes a victim of themselves, which perpetuates the problem because disparity cannot be acknowledged, and therefore, the gap between [[Societal minority]] and [[Societal majority]] cannot be closed, at least with greater probability at the macro-level. There appears to be some overlap with this concept with this as well: [[Disappointment thrives between your expectations and reality]]. That the longer we attempt to maintain a "willful blindness" to our privilege, the more we justified in feeling that the roadmap to equality is **taking something from us** as opposed to **leveling and creating equality for all**. It is a sad truth... Everyone wants to be a victim... Even the privilege consider themselves a minority. However, keep in mind [[What makes a minority and majority]] - it is not the traditional sense most adhere to.