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    Aggregating harms across a group to establish oppression ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Sexism is a form of oppression against women as a group, even though sexism also restricts opportunities for men.

    Aggregating harms across a group to establish oppression obscures intra-group variation so severe—by race, class, and disability—that 'women as a group' lacks the coherence required for a meaningful oppression-claim.

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    Key Terms

    Aggregating(as in combining district-level majorities)
    Combining or adding together multiple pieces of information or votes to reach an overall result.
    Intra-group variation(as used in social theory)
    The significant differences that exist within a single group (not between different groups), like how women differ from each other by race, class, or ability.
    Oppression-claim(as used in feminist philosophy and political theory)
    An argument or statement that a particular group experiences systematic unfair treatment based on a shared characteristic.
    coherence(Applied uniformly by Bosanquet to both religious and non-religious truth claims.)
    The standard by which truth is assessed — a belief or system of beliefs is true insofar as it forms a consistent, internally unified whole.

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    oppression(Used to argue that egalitarian justice should focus on ending socially caused inequalities rather than luck-based inequalities)
    A condition that is by definition socially imposed

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