As an emerging social worker, I am very sensitive to people’s experiences of oppression, whether the oppression occurred in society, school, work or family. Because I am very liberal, I might struggle with accepting clients’ worldviews that are more conservative and may not align with mine. In particular I may react to clients who may be considered oppressors themselves. We are faced with issues of power and oppression on a daily basis beginning in childhood. We begin life experiencing power dynamics in families where many children or adults feel the power imbalances and often experience oppression. From there we attend school, where teachers and disciplinarians exercise power over us - even the right to strike us - and can make or destroy a person’s life or future success. From there, in employment environments or under government rules we are constantly experiencing the potential for or the actual experience of oppression.   Even governmental policies or societal attitudes towards, for example, gender, race, sexual orientation, or age discrimination can be quite oppressive. For example, if my client expressed “conservative” values such as racist, misogynistic, or homophobic attitudes those beliefs would trigger negative reactions in me. And while those clients may also be oppressed by someone else, they might not believe they perpetuate oppression themselves. In other words, they may well believe they are being fair and balanced. I especially observed this in Ukraine during the Maidan revolution where people gathered to protest the corrupt and oppressive government while at the same time (many of the protestors) expressed hostility towards LGBTQ+ groups who had also joined the protests.  I have to work on self-reflection to resist the potential of becoming an oppressor myself towards those clients whose values I do not share but who have, arguably, simply been colonized by those particular “conservative” cultural attitudes that perpetuate oppression.