Many folks (on this site and irl) seem to think that oppressions are additive, quantifiable, categorized, ranked. But reality isn't so clear cut, so easily categorized, so simple.
Please take some time and read Patricia Hill Collins' "Black Feminist Thought".
She illustrates how such thinking is rooted in Eurocentric, masculinist thought, and how we need to move away from such simplistic and reductionist understandings to see oppressions as an interlocking system in a system of dominance.
She emphasizes that there are multiple levels of domination - personal, community, systemic. In order to resist and fight this matrix of domination, we need to understand that there are very few pure victims (or oppressors).
Understand that everyone is simultaneously a member of many dominant groups and many subordinate groups.
Her theory isnt perfect, but start with this. Coz reductionist and simplistic takes aren't rooted in reality and are unable to capture the complexity of human experiences.
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