Dana Mathewson

"Fat, short, unattractive" people, females and individuals without children are among the groups facing "oppression" or "resistance," according to a graphic allegedly given to eighth-graders at a California prep school.

A screenshot of the slide appeared on an Instagram account dedicated to posting about the purported "woke excesses" at the Harvard-Westlake prep school in Los Angeles.

"If you are ‘urban’ you are privileged, but if you are ‘rural’ you are oppressed," the post from @WokeAtHW reads. "We don't get it either."

A Harvard-Westlake spokesperson declined to comment.

The image appears to have been taken from the Intertwine Charter’s "Wheel of privileges and oppression," part of a jargon-infused Australian document that aims to "aid organisations to become an ally along the axes of oppression the organisation does not inhabit."

The charter does not appear to have been designed with children in mind. But the graphic was presented to students as part of their eighth-grade "human development" course, according to @WokeAtHW.

It lists a number of characteristics purported to carry "privilege," and others that invoke "oppression/resistance."

Privileged descriptors include "male," "white," "healthy, coping," and "sexual."

Terms on the "oppression/resistance" side include "too young, too old," "rural, remote," LGBTQ, "female" and "unqualified, illiterate."

"In general, society is set up for people with attributes at one end of the spectrum — that is, the default is for people with those attributes," the Intertwine Charter reads. "As a result, even though they might not be aware of it, they are treated as valued and experience ‘privilege’ while people with attributes at the other end experience disadvantage or oppression."

I'm laughing too hard to extract any more of this. I personally "intersect" (dangerous word these days) this thing in two places: short, and I grew up rural. Oh yeah... I'm male, too. Editor Jack Kemp, who knows me personally, will attest that I am movie-star handsome (right, Jack? RIGHT?), so the unattractive part is not relevant. I'm not fat -- in fact, I've lost a few pounds from the last time I stepped on the home bathroom scale, and I wonder if I should be concerned about that. But this whole thing is an attempt by the Left to turn everybody into some sort of a victim. If you want a big horselaugh, go here https://www.foxnews.com/us/harvard-westlake-prep-school-fat-short-unattractive-people-oppressed for the entire article.

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