Abstract: This paper is part of a larger project that seeks to vindicate a claim often made in feminist and decolonial theory, but whose relevance to political philosophy is rarely understood: the claim that the concept of the human has been a vehicle of oppression. I focus here on identifying an undertheorized mechanism by which conceptions of human flourishing can be oppressive. Conceptions of human flourishing can require social practices that cannot be achieved without the subordination of some. A particular danger of such conceptions of human flourishing is that they can conceal prescriptions that make things worse within what seem to be pathways to making things better. I use a term inspired by Sylvia Wynter to name this mechanism by which conceptions of human flourishing can be oppressive: “interest overrepresentation.”