According to Hill Collins, is oppression full of contradictions because each group describes the type of oppression they feel comfortable with as being fundamental and thereby classify other oppression as less important.This approaches fail to recognize that there are only few people who are purely victims or oppressors. Each person has varying amounts of penalties and privileges from different systems of oppression that frames everyone's lives. This makes oppression to be full of contradictions. Social activists fail to understand how their action and thoughts may uphold someone else's subordination. For instance some activists claim that race,class and gender or ethnicity are not the most fundamental or important oppression systems yet the
