Acknowledge how that privilege puts you in a position of power, and learn how you can use that same privilege to dismantle oppressive systems that you benefit from while they oppress others.
People who are caught in oppressive systems adopt various stances toward them, consciously or unconsciously.
I have long said that those of us who have never felt it cannot possibly know what it's like to feel victimized by oppressive systems.
It's undoubtedly part of the attractiveness of Gordimer's persona that she doesn't dwell on all those shades of complicity and special pleading among the privileged which make oppressive systems so durable.
Donna Haraway, emerita professor of the history of consciousness and feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an inspiration for cyberfeminism, wrote that new technologies could liberate women from patriarchy and other oppressive systems.
"The Czechs recognize that there are a lot of bad things that various Czechs have done along the lines of collaborating with these oppressive systems," he added, "but there's been a strong tendency not to make them outright villains, to turn them instead into comic characters".
