{"id":1591,"date":"2025-07-10T00:11:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T00:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ykhong.com\/writes\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2025-07-10T00:11:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T00:11:51","slug":"oppressors-made-the-decision-to-oppress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ykhong.com\/writes\/oppressors-made-the-decision-to-oppress\/","title":{"rendered":"Oppressors Made the Decision to Oppress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a reminder that historically, but also in this very moment, oppressors are making the very intentional decision to oppress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mass disabling people is a decision.<br>Spending billions for a militarized abduction force is a decision.<br>War, real estate development, and individualism are detrimental decisions that people are making.<br>The system of binary thinking is a decision.<br>Fascism is a decision.<br>Committing genocide is a decision.<br>Surveillance is a decision.<br>AI climate destruction is a decision.<br>Land theft, always choosing profits over people, abysmal health care systems,<br>low wages, failed housing and education infrastructure, prisons, and police, those are all decisions that people made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the question is not why are they doing this?<br>We already have the answer.<br>It is because they decided to.<br>It is because <strong>this is what oppressors chose.<\/strong><br><strong>Oppressors have made the decision to oppress.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But also remember, we have choices too.<br>We can decide to protect each other.<br>People who benefit more from the white cis het capitalist colonial system we are in<br>can make the decision to be a traitor to the systems of power.<br>We can decide that we do not want oppressors and oppression.<br>We can decide that the only option is for us to be free.<br>We can decide to dismantle Empire.<br>We can decide to build a liberatory world.<br>We can decide to fight until all of us are liberated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>That is our choice.<\/strong><br><strong>That is our decision.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We choose liberation.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a reminder that historically, but also in this very moment, oppressors are making the very intentional decision to oppress. 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