The Driving Force Behind Oppression

At first glance, one would think that the Politically Correct agenda and movement was driven by one thing; the desire to stop oppression. Social Justice Warriors are the boots on the ground army of the PC that attack oppressors. This is, in any case, the impression they want to convey.

The Politically Correct and the Social Justice Warriors are not driven to end oppression. They are driven to obtain it. They think that their beliefs are correct which makes them superior to all others. Those who do not agree with their belief system are thought to be less than human, incapable of proper thought and emotions. The Politically Correct, in their own eyes, are the standard for humanity. Anything less is not human and can be and should be dealt with accordingly, as less than human.

A good example of this type of philosophy would be Adolph Hitler and his idea of the German master race. Anything less than true German was brutalized and exterminated. Earlier propaganda films put out by Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany, used rats as a metaphor for non-Germans, particularly Jews. These “rats” were nasty, diseased, and inhuman, that ran around in gutters and sewers. The only humane thing to do to these horrid, miserable creatures was to kill them and put them out of their misery.

This is the same mindset of the today’s Politically Correct, the Social Justice Warriors and Antifa. Anyone who doesn’t think and act like them is nothing but a rat fit for extermination. The Politically Correct feel justified in any action taken be it legal, moral, or physical against their opponent, because the Politically Correct are human, all others are not.  

It is pride that drives them, plain and simple. It is pride, the feeling of superiority, that drives the Politically Correct to try to squelch and oppress its opponent. This type of pride has an over-appreciation of self that is unwarranted. This self-inflation of being and worth causes the prideful person to believe that not only are they superior to others, but that others are inferior and are lesser beings. Because of this they feel justified in their acts. This idea causes the proud to treat others poorly, to abuse and advantage them.

Truth and justice are relative to their ideals. Whatever runs consistent with them are accepted as true.

But take a look at what God thinks of the prideful.

“Everyone proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD; Though they join forces, none will go unpunished.” (Proverbs 16:5)

The solution to pride is humility. James tells us that, “God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.” (James 4:6). The proud are fighting against God.

“The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low. (Isaiah 2:11-12)

“Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.” (1 Peter 5:6-7)

The battle against pride and the oppression it creates is very much an Old Testament issue. The Old Testament is replete with examples of it and God’s reaction to it.

Do not oppress the stranger

“Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.” (Exodus 22:21)

Do not oppress your neighbor

“And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another.” (Leviticus 25:14)

Do not oppress your employees or workers

“Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates” (Deuteronomy 24:14)

Do not oppress the sick and afflicted

“Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate” (Proverbs 22:22)

Do not oppress anyone!

“Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.” (Leviticus 25:17)

Pride is the root of all oppression

“I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors. Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.” (Psalm 119:121-122)

With pride comes oppression creating contention and strife.

“Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.” (Proverbs 13:10)

The humble have a responsibility to the oppressed.

“Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.” (Psalm 10:17-18)

“Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.” (Psalm 10:17-18)

God is the refuge for the oppressed.

“O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them. But the Lord shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment. And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness. The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.” (Psalm 9:6-10)

Oppression is defined as “prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control”.

The Cambridge Dictionary has a more modern, PC definition, “a situation in which people are governed in an unfair and cruel way and prevented from having opportunities and freedom”

The Collins Dictionary covers about all conceivable forms of oppression. “the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner. an act or instance of oppressing or subjecting to cruel or unjust impositions or restraints. the state of being oppressed. the feeling of being heavily burdened, mentally or physically, by troubles, adverse conditions, anxiety, etc.

The root word for oppress found in the Old Testament is “lachats”. It means to squeeze or press. The New Testament word for oppress is “katadynasteuo”. It is a composite word combining “great authority or power” with “against or in” to define the act.

No matter how oppression is defined, the source and cause will always be pride. Pride produces other sins as well. As mentioned earlier, contention is caused by pride. Contention which includes ill-will, quarreling, strife, controversy, and disputes, these things are the result of pride.

The root of bigotry and racism isn’t hate, its pride that causes the hate.

The proud don’t think rules apply to them, after all, they are above the realm of mere mortals therefore they are above any rule, regulation or law. This includes God.

“The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.” (Psalm 10:4)

“O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself. Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud. They break in pieces thy people, O Lord, and afflict thine heritage. They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. Yet they say, The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.” (Psalm 94;1-2, 5-7)

The proud do not think that God and His ways apply to them. After all, they are superior to other people and God made rules that apply to the common man, not to them. Besides, the proud have proof that God’s laws don’t apply. They have done what is considered to be sin and have suffered no consequence for it!

But God is in the generation of the righteous (Psalm 14:5). The humble know that, “The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way” and they also know that with God, “the froward mouth, do I hate.” (Proverbs 8:13)

The humble rest in the promise of God and know that God has, “heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.” (Psalm 10:17-18).

The humble have the, “Lord is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.” And that when it comes to the proud who believe they are above the consequences of sin and the law that God will, “bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off.” (Psalm 94:22-23)

Bill Hitchcock