The Assads in Syria are oppressors ... We do not defend oppressors and those oppressed shouldn't defend the oppressor.
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Postmodernists, he says, are obsessed with the idea of oppression, and, by waging war on oppressors real and imagined, they become oppressors themselves.
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He finally overcame his oppressors and came into his own.
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But some also harbor troubling views about their perceived oppressors.
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Populism referred not to content but to "people" against perceived oppressors.
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ONLY DIRE CIRCUMSTANCE CAN LEAD TO THE OVERTHROW OF THE OPPRESSORS.
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It was a tool for deadly oppressors and liberation movements alike.
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So, like, the people who are being oppressed are the oppressors?
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His eyes lit up as he talked about outsmarting his oppressors.
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But in the barrio, violent, merciless police allies look more like oppressors.
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"America has rejected the Cuban people's oppressors," Trump said at the time.
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Killmonger believes that justice means colonizing the colonizers and oppressing the oppressors.
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Inshallah ( god willing) we will succeed and be free from our oppressors.
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One of these oppressors was Bashar Al-Assad, the President of Syria.
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The oppressed learn from their oppressors; Brutus's language can be oppressive, too.
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The issue in this country is about the oppressors and the downtrodden.
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The oppressors of generations who have kept you down with myths of opportunity.
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And, ultimately to unite and stand against oppressors as humans have always done.
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Thurman argued in his book that Christianity wasn't originally a religion of oppressors.
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We also see civilians becoming more brave, even brazen as they challenge their oppressors.
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With this newfound ability, they channel their rage and fight their oppressors, aka men.
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"America has rejected the Cuban people's oppressors," Trump said in a crowded, sweltering auditorium.
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"People who have been oppressed take on the characteristics of their oppressors," says RuPaul.
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And, the power inherent in this physical agency eventually comes to intimidate the oppressors.
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Third, you define those doing comparatively better as oppressors of those doing comparatively worse.
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It was a sport played by white men -- the race of their longtime oppressors.
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A subjugated group, taking its destiny into its hands, valiantly rebels against its oppressors.
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In 5003 characters, Twittering S.J.W.s (social justice warriors) "call out" and "cancel" their oppressors.
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Their oppressors are dead, but, as in "Hir," power remains a terrible human need.
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They foster vicious laws to protect the oppressors, and keep the poor in place.
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The man returned for the last time and vanquished his oppressors in a tireless fury.
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After Slayer's "God Hates Us All," there's not much room for songs about human oppressors.
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Mr Corbyn has spent a career claiming to stand for the oppressed while backing oppressors.
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MANY VICTIMS of war crimes dream of seeing their oppressors tried by an international court.
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We cannot ask the oppressed to be the only ones rising up against the oppressors.
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We must meet our would-be oppressors at polls across the country on Election Day.
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"You [The New School] are the oppressors that you claim to fight against," she said.
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But Lanthimos complicates that one-sided view, painting the loners just as bleakly as the oppressors.
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Robin is now a rebel fighting Mother's army of oppressors in an attempt to fix things.
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And in the end, he's more frightening than the rampaging rapists and out-of-control oppressors.
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The man returned for a last time to vanquish all his oppressors in a tireless fury.
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It would put us unmistakably on the side of the Chinese people, rather than their oppressors.
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Thanks to those bold enough to speak the truth even in the face of the oppressors!
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It teaches kids to educate themselves and to listen to the oppressed rather than the oppressors.
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On the side of their oppressors was power, but they had no one to comfort them.
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The Houthis, who claimed to champion the mathlumeen, or oppressed masses, may be turning into their oppressors.
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Imagine the power they could have if unified against their oppressors in one powerful, unbreakable, furious force?
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The voice of my assailant's ghost.... The voices of students, teachers, colleagues, mentors, examiners, interrogators, enlighteners, oppressors.
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People in such situations tend rather to solidify their national consciousness and rise up against perceived oppressors.
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Their biggest "crime" is to have decided not to initiate a witch hunt against their former oppressors.
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The lives of millions were dangling at the end of a thinning string, their oppressors the puppeteers.
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But if you define yourself through the act of opposition, then you're letting the oppressors set the terms.
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While he was in jail, he learned Afrikaans and studied Afrikaans history so he could understand his oppressors.
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They hung bodies from telephone poles, and encouraged civilians to desecrate the corpses of their former jihadi oppressors.
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A government powerful enough to terrorize the oppressed could at some point turn around and terrorize the oppressors.
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The political moral of the movie is that change happens when the oppressed are nice to their oppressors.
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They are on the side of Cameron and her peers, standing with the children against their zealous oppressors.
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If Mandela, imprisoned by his oppressors, can still beat them and kill apartheid but doing it with love.
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The kind of America hid in history books and used to erect statues of oppressors cloaked as heroes.
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The colonies broke free of their oppressors, only to continue enslaving blacks for decades after Britain renounced the practice.
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That fact is also exploited by anti-Semites as evidence for their conspiracy theory that Jews are universal oppressors.
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In this case, the beauty of the world is the tool of the oppressors hellbent on keeping women subservient.
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The best plays aren't just about empathizing with the oppressed; they're also about accepting our connection to the oppressors.
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In one sermon, he spoke out against "oppressors," Sunni or Shiite, and called for the oppressed to unite against them.
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Real biggie = more big than anything yet in terms of our standing for poor and sick , defending weak from oppressors .
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It's as important now than it has ever been that trans voices are amplified louder than those of our oppressors.
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Before it was always Hollywood that transmitted our values to the world and said, we were guilty oppressors, not anymore.
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And yet the oppressors never succeed in extinguishing the man's essential, defiant pride (the key to Malachi Kirby's impressive performance).
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Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey have stood by as the oppressed are banned from their platforms rather than their oppressors.
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He can set a new, more hopeful tone in American foreign policy that inspires the oppressed and undermines their oppressors.
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Even well-meaning bystanders, like Wakanda, will be pulled in — because to do nothing is to side with the oppressors.
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They would be, themselves, shadow people, haunted by the profound certainty that oppressors cannot exist without those who are oppressed.
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I think of that slippery little phrase every time I field a nasty phone call from my student loan oppressors.
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Taíno Indians, the first inhabitants in Haiti, as well as runaway slaves, used the caves to hide from their oppressors.
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Dany's M.O. in Slaver's Bay was to play the liberator — extreme violence, she could argue, was warranted against tyrannical oppressors.
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Or that it is obscene, less than a century after the Holocaust, to class Jews with their historical "white oppressors"?
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They're the tools of propagandists, xenophobes, and oppressors, and tend to stick around through the ages like a bad smell.
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The collective issued a call for "art against the oppressors" as they prepared for their first exhibit titled Rattle Your Rage.
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Suffering leads Killmonger and Magneto to adopt their oppressors' paradigms, attempting to flip the power structure to put themselves on top.
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STRAKA: Well, I think that the left has done a really successful job in pushing this narrative of victimhood and oppressors.
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An accident forces Will into revealing his identity and expertise, and he's put to work for his oppressors against his will.
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The aim of satyagraha was to arouse the conscience of oppressors and invigorate their victims with a sense of moral agency.
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Once that narrative is written, these same oppressors come into indigenous communities and treat us with the same level of disrespect.
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"There is this equating of historical figures who are oppressors and historical figures who fought back against oppression," Mr. Williams said.
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He, too, viewed America as embracing the world's downtrodden and dispossessed, not their oppressors, and offering everyone the opportunity to succeed.
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They alternate among several theories that all claim that trans women are really men, who are the ultimate oppressors of women.
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Whatever happens to the Handmaids next — and as Lydia says, "There will be consequences" — they've at least proved their oppressors wrong.
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The oppressors of generations who have kept you down with myths of opportunity, and we give it back to you... the people.
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The oppressors of generations who have kept you down with myths of opportunity, and we give it back to you, the people.
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We deserve to look up to freedom fighters like Bussa, not continue to be looked down upon by our history's cruelest oppressors.
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Even though the book was written almost half a century ago, its story of revolution against oppressors still rings true and relevant.
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Women adopted the full-bodied Victorian dress from their oppressors, but after the war remade it with symbols unique to their tribe.
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The American story is the conflict between oppressors who seek to preserve white supremacy and people who seek to move beyond it.
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"No Muslim population, including Iran, will tolerate the violation of oppressors and Zionists against Islamic holy sites," Rouhani said, according to Mizan.
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Usually, they'd meet a sticky end at the hands of their male oppressors but this time around, Björk has changed the ending.
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Okja's oppressors, like E. T.'s, are part of a system that refuses to recognize her as anything more than a thing.
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The zines add bite ("The Board of Oppressors … Oops I Mean Trustees") to the barrage of institutional information at new-student orientation.
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He argued how oppressors never voluntarily gave up freedom to the oppressed — it always had to be demanded by "extremists" for justice.
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We protested against external oppressors but we also resisted the oppressive conditions of segregation and discrimination through performance, tapping our internal capacity.
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Not bad for a guy who sympathized with his British oppressors and who criticized Adams for wanting to make peace with the French.
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Why does it seem so hard for this nation to imagine a world where black freedom fighters are celebrated instead of their oppressors?
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It's a really useful way of illustrating the ways oppression works, how even people who think they're allies can end up being oppressors.
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What a creative way to He just runs them all togeth Do we ever stand for sick and poor , defend weak from oppressors!
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HR violations lead to mass migration, help extremism flourish & often result in new governments hostile towards the U.S. because we supported their oppressors.
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Ms DoAmaral says students should learn about heroes "who were known for their achievements" as well as those who battle oppressors, and athletes.
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"You will send the message to the oppressed Cuban people that you stand with their oppressors," he said in a letter on Thursday.
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The people who live in the bayou exist apart from white society and, for all their troubles, live without fear from their oppressors.
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If the European Union and NATO tell you to change your ago-old name to enter a coalition of oppressors, then don't engage.
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They found new courage to face down their oppressors, and they found the words to declare that Poland would be Poland once again.
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Eventually Ford gained consciousness, and "vanquished all his [human] oppressors in a tireless fury," including his creator and every guest in the park.
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On campus these days, current events are often depicted as pure power struggles — oppressors acting to preserve their privilege over the virtuous oppressed.
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"Vixen," with its allegorical pitting of woodland animals against their human oppressors, serves a charming, bestial foil to Mr. Puts's vision of conflict.
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The rest of the ensemble covers multiple roles, sometimes oppressors and sometimes oppressed, which is part of what makes the show so powerful.
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He was a Weinstein of his time, a man who shared many traits with the oppressors of the refugee women in film club.
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A story demands that it be led by its most compelling characters, and in most cases, that means the oppressed, not the oppressors.
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They play the only hand they feel they have: to seek power through misogyny the way their oppressors seek power through white supremacy.
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Handmaids would stride toward the camera in formation, in ways that seemed designed to underline their force as a potential army against their oppressors.
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It was the oppressors and the oppressed sitting in a room together, with the whole country watching, and talking through everything that had happened.
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One way or another, the helpless American inhabitants of that alternate reality will finally throw off the yoke of their Nazi and Japanese oppressors.
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The people of Iran are more than capable of changing the regime themselves, if only the West stops its policy of engaging their oppressors.
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It's not hard to trick Kat into helping you, which often results in Kat helping out the oppressors, despite her plight for the oppressed.
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And that means that the people you're identifying as your oppressors are the people with whom you have some of your most intimate relationships.
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Officers themselves are likely to hear inconsistent or even contradictory messages that reflect the public's polarized view of the police as protectors or oppressors.
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I'm not an Arnold Palmer guy—golf is the sport of uninteresting oppressors, and moreover, why do you want lemonade to be less sweet?
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Further, the anniversary of the battle at Bhima Koregaon is a historical moment of triumph for Dalits against people who they viewed as oppressors.
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Political correctness has become so extreme that instead of just giving privileges to disadvantaged groups, people are attacking "real or imagined" oppressors, he continued.
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Mostly barred from the party-controlled mainstream media, they take to the Chinese equivalents of Facebook and Twitter to find allies and shame oppressors.
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The next step is to recognize the fact that the Iranian people and their organized opposition can play a role in thwarting their oppressors.
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Both men have learned from the examples of their oppressors, and seek to replicate them in ways that would put their own people on top.
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"But we have the power to make change," says Madeline Brewer, who portrays Janine, a handmaid who was mutilated for daring to mock her oppressors.
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"Had we become distracted by the question of my safety we would have lost the moral offensive and sunk to the level of our oppressors."
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The band members are locked in battle with masked oppressors, culminating in an epic dance party that ends with each one on their own throne.
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"It's three neighbouring countries I as prime minister was deeply involved in bringing in to the European community from the former communist oppressors," he said.
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The committee released a list of top global press oppressors on Monday in response to Trump's upcoming "fake news" awards, giving Trump the top honor.
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"It's three neighboring countries I as prime minister was deeply involved in bringing in to the European community from the former communist oppressors," he said.
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No population should be forced to live in an atmosphere of fear while its oppressors are given broad latitude in their actions without facing consequences.
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The man says that African-Americans are oppressed and questions why white American revolutionaries are praised for fighting their oppressors but African ones are not.
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Indeed, the Iranian people, and in particular the younger generation, were quite distraught over the decades-long U.S. policy of trying to placate their oppressors.
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The alt-right and white supremacists thrive on stories of anti-white racism—nothing makes for better propaganda than the sense of a conspiracy of oppressors.
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In the social justice activism circles I was involved in, too much Jewish pride could be interpreted as siding with privileged oppressors and champions of Zionism.
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He also issued a veiled appeal to the Iranian people, who he said are being held "hostage" by their government, to rise up against their oppressors.
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By creating clever GIFs and Photoshopped artwork of women stomping out oppressors and enjoying themselves publicly without judgement, she's sneaking her ideals into the public mindset.
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"As you know me from a long time ago, I will be supporting the oppressed people and be against oppressors," he said in an online video.
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Why would a male, ethnic Swedish worker want to vote for political parties which see "white men" as oppressors and regularly denigrate their ethnicity and culture?
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With electronic devices, the underground movements hack into the core of the city and turn the very systems used to pin them down against their oppressors.
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And that's what we have mostly on campus, is this common enemy; everybody's supposed to unite against the straight white men who are the evil oppressors.
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Instead, the writer-director furnishes a lengthy drama about several generations of mistreated women who band together for support — and ultimately vengeance — against their male oppressors.
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And here: The socialist narrative names the oppressors of the vulnerable, such as the bourgeoisie (Marx), kulaks (Lenin), landlords (Mao), and giant corporations (Sanders and Warren).
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The power of "The Boys" comes from its attack on the illiberal vigilantism embodied by The Seven, and on their fans' eagerness to embrace their oppressors.
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Because though intersectionality cloaks itself in the garb of humanism, it takes a Manichaean view of life in which there can only be oppressors and oppressed.
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And international humanitarian action should shame China into opening a safe transit route to the free world for North Korean refugees attempting to escape their oppressors.
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As the women's movement enters its second year, we must remember the message we sent last year and show our oppressors we are not finished yet.
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"The socialist narrative names the oppressors of the vulnerable, such as the bourgeoisie (Marx), kulaks (Lenin), landlords (Mao), and giant corporations (Sanders and Warren)," the report says.
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Confederate statues celebrate racism, but the ideology of white supremacy not only venerates oppressors — it also erases the stories and sacrifices of those who dared to resist.
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This high-octane FPS game sets you in the middle of Nazi-controlled America where you must lead a resistance and liberate the country from its oppressors.
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" As Mr Bauer put it, in any rating of severe religious oppressors, "China would be in a category all by itself...they are an equal opportunity persecutor.
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Describing the United States and Israel as oppressors, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that Trump's decision was a sign of incompetence and failure.
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"This is a legitimate step for us to defend the world's persecuted people and liberate the oppressed people from the hands of the oppressors!" the group said.
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One of Goebbels's less propitious schemes was to confer honorary Aryan status on Native American tribes, in the hope that they would rise up against their oppressors.
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"The socialist narrative names the oppressors of the vulnerable, such as the bourgeoisie (Marx), kulaks (Lenin), landlords (Mao), and giant corporations (Sanders and Warren)," the report argues.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of Iranians rallied on Sunday to mark the anniversary of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, denouncing the United States and Israel as oppressors.
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It's through food that we can understand, and must confront, these histories of negotiation between cultures of oppressors and the oppressed, of the powerful and the disenfranchised.
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In one stanza, Brecht writes: The most beautiful of all doubts Is when the downtrodden and despondent raise their heads andStop believing in the strengthOf their oppressors.
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The hosts, led by Dolores, have engaged in a violent revolt against their human oppressors, and they finally have a taste of what real "freedom" is like.
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Unfortunately, we have to learn over and over again that liberty from oppressors is never sufficient to bring about the public spaces in which public freedom flourishes.
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But one can imagine how useful such a thing might be, either for those at risk of retribution from political oppressors or more garden variety privacy preferences.
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Klaus Mann, Mephisto 1936; reprint Penguin Classics, 1995 Of course, not all artists stand up so directly to their oppressors — some actually see them as an opportunity.
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Jagged Alliance 23 offers a colonial adventure without the imperialism, where the foreign guns-for-hire would be on the side of freedom fighters rather than their oppressors.
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Any attempt to debunk their theories just gets incorporated into the theory itself—you're either with the freedom fighters battling shadowy oppressors, or you're part of the coverup.
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Rohrabacher inherited Reagan's moral clarity that always leads him to fight for those who are under the thumb of totalitarian oppressors, even when to do so is unpopular.
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It will take longer for Zimbabweans to find out whether their jubilation at the unexpected transformation of their onetime oppressors to uniformed liberators will be vindicated or dashed.
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Les Mis is about what happens when people take action against their oppressors, stand up for their own rights, and ponder the significance of a loaf of bread.
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However, Freire warns that without trusting the people in their "pursuit of self-affirmation" even well intentioned leaders will—instead of liberating—often unknowingly become the oppressors themselves.
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Luciano Benjamín Menéndez, one of the most notorious oppressors during Argentina's era of brutal dictatorship, from 21979 to 290, died on Tuesday in the central city of Córdoba.
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Jews see a boycott of Israel as a boycott of their community and their family; Palestinians and their allies see commerce with Israel as support for their oppressors.
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"The battle shown here is between oppressors and oppressed, between brute force and steadfast endurance, until the legal, physical and moral weight of the Federal Government brings victory."
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So, if you happen to be in the way of our forging relationships with your oppressors that could serve our security and economic interests, good luck to you.
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When you look deeper, though, they aren't really angry at their so-called oppressors—who appear to be credit card companies and other corporations, for the most part.
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North Korea is one of the worst oppressors of religion in the world, so having the leader of the Catholic Church drop in would be an incredible sight.
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First, you come together as a group to protect yourselves, but later you can develop an identity with positive content that isn't based purely on hostility to your oppressors.
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Like 1973's Battle for the Planet of the Apes, War sees the sentient simians rising against the humans they see as oppressors and waging a full-on rebellion.
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In reclaiming the city streets as liberators rather than oppressors of women, Elkin shows that inhabiting a space can be the means of asserting a voice and an identity.
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The effect was to reframe monopolists: Rather than being predators and oppressors, these "gentle giants" lived in fear of competition, while seeking only to make the economy more efficient.
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Netflix, meanwhile, has used the Spielberg controversy to portray the studios as oppressors and cast itself as a populist company out to bring quality, diverse films to the masses.
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The power games Boesman and Lena play with each other, fighting over their few prerogatives of wine and shelter, obviously recapitulated the greed and sadism of their white oppressors.
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Jefferson knew what he was doing when he wrote that "pursuit of happiness" line, a perfectly delivered slap in the face to his joy-shunning oppressors across the pond.
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"Facebook is a tool for the voice of oppressed people, and when it tries to suppress that voice, then Facebook is not dissimilar to that of oppressors," Mansour said.
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Based on my interviews, the majority of the middle class have a set of beliefs and philosophies that suggest success and money turns people into greedy, corrupt and uncaring oppressors.
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Davis quoted Martin Luther King, Jr. who said that change happens over time from "human dedication and effort" and if we don't give both of those things the oppressors win.
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Although largely about freedom and democracy, last week's speech in Jiroft hit a familiar theme by condemning "oppressors" in a dig at the West, and the United States in particular.
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"One of the many damages of internalized racism is that it puts the responsibility of change on the oppressed, instead of on the oppressors and their oppressive systems," David says.
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Hulu dropped the first full-length trailer for season 3 of the dystopian drama The Handmaid's Tale Wednesday morning, teasing the ongoing battle between June (Moss) and her patriarchal oppressors.
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"The global financial elite are oppressors, not victims [...] Hacking that elite and returning the tiniest fraction of the wealth that they've stolen doesn't make them victims," Phineas Fisher told me.
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You see, the Congressional Black Caucus and its lackeys like Clay need to keep the black community in chains, ignorant of the real oppressors in their community: liberal black leadership.
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That same sense of helplessness these remarkable women felt before #MeToo went viral — where they felt silenced by their oppressors — is known all too well by child sexual abuse survivors.
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In a first round of bloodshed, aggrieved townspeople rose up against their American oppressors and killed eight — or maybe 36, or 45, or 48 — American soldiers (it depends who's counting).
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True advocates of peace and human rights must echo the cries of those who cannot do so alone — even if the oppressors are not the ones they're used to scrutinizing.
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It should not be surprising, then, that black American slaves, who endured the trauma of their own beatings, inherited their oppressors' violence and, for centuries, passed down these parenting beliefs.
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The women tried to win over men who were simultaneously their lovers and oppressors with an excruciatingly slow, patient drive to change their minds — remember all those petitions and referendums.
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As it became clear that the working class of the liberal democracies wasn't going to overthrow their "capitalist oppressors," the Marxist intellectuals transitioned from class warfare to gender and race politics.
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But he noted that the effects of colonialism in contemporary Brazil are incredibly complex; "the distinction between oppressors and the oppressed are blurry, if not even contradictory at times," he said.
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The psalmist, reputed to be King David, calls for all manner of unpleasant things to befall his adversaries, and more generally the oppressors of the poor—but mainly his own enemies.
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Keeping the races apart was a way of preventing African-Americans from gaining the resources and the knowledge that might enable them to rise up against their oppressors and free themselves.
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"The global financial elite are oppressors, not victims [...] Hacking that elite and returning the tiniest fraction of the wealth that they've stolen doesn't make them victims," Phineas Fisher previously told Motherboard.
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It's a hard thing to reconcile institutionalized hatred of suits with the appreciation for someone as a monumental historical figure, one that shattered a centuries-long lineage of white male oppressors.
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Saint-Saëns thought this biblical story of a fateful love affair, set against the backdrop of enslaved Israelites and their Philistine oppressors, would best be presented as a stirring concert oratorio.
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To crusade for it is to be on the side of justice, and so there is no choice but to accuse those obstructing it of being racists, misogynists, élitists, or oppressors.
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Rey (Daisy Ridley), our scavenger-turned-hero introduced in 2015's "The Force Awakens," is meanwhile continuing her training as a Jedi knight among the rebel forces struggling against the oppressors.
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Legend has it that on the occasion of the holiday in 1368, Han Chinese rebels wanting to overthrow Mongol oppressors slipped into the cakes pieces of paper calling for a revolt.
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The plot is also familiar: A young woman trapped in a brutal system must fight to win freedom for herself and her male companion, eventually fomenting a rebellion against her oppressors.
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"This agency is controlled & directed by experienced oppressors sent by #Cuba & these kinds of tactics are textbook methods used by the Cuban regime," Senator Marco Rubio of Florida said on Twitter.
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With a carefully crafted testimony that aligned with Puritan perceptions of gender, race, and religion, Tituba managed to stave off her oppressors, deflect suspicion onto the wider community, and protect her life.
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Perhaps the most hopeful promise is that fictional, synthetic Dolores will get her revenge against her patriarchal oppressors and make her own justice, just as real women have always had to do.
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She opted not to leave Gilead during the show's second season, and it seems she's now hard at work formulating a revolution against her oppressors and hunting for allies to help her.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads MIAMI BEACH — That the culture of the marginalized is utilized by their own oppressors — for advertising, for fun — is a callous peculiarity of colonization (and xenophobia).
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As he is radicalized, his eloquence, his charisma and his knowledge of Scripture become weapons deployed against his oppressors, and the relative kindness of the white Turners proves to be an illusion.
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That film tells the story of William Wallace (played by Mel Gibson), who roused and united the medieval Scots against their oppressors at a time when no one thought it was possible.
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And the narrative we've come to cherish, when it comes to the rights of historically marginalized groups, is that of self-deliverance, in which the oppressed defy and ultimately defeat their oppressors.
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In contrast, we later get a first look at the Colonies, where Gilead sends its female transgressors — called Unwomen by their oppressors — to do punishing environmental cleanup until the radiation kills them.
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As an ordained Baptist minister, trained at a conservative seminary, I sincerely hope the version of American Christianity held by President Trump and the oppressors he represents is never saved by anyone.
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But both Moira and Emily are talking about taking direction against their oppressors; June, on the other hand, is endangering the lives of people who are trying to help, not hurt her.
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They're held as rape slaves by a theocratic patriarchy, and even if they theoretically outnumber their oppressors, they're systemically kept down by a government that believes them to be little more than chattel.
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In the aftermath of his "time-out," Jones launched an all-out offensive against what he claims is a Silicon Valley–led censorship campaign, decrying companies like Facebook and Google as globalist oppressors.
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"I am not sure why this time Google is in effect siding with the oppressors by blocking access to important services such as GAE for Iranians at such a crucial time," she said.
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He doesn't want to blow up the planet, he wants violent restitution for the suffering and oppression inflicted on those who share his skin color; oppress the oppressors, and colonize and colonizers, Killmonger believes.
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James Carney, known there as Guadalupe, who had been exiled from Honduras in 1979, in part for adopting an extreme view of liberation theology that supported the taking up of arms against military oppressors.
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A free press remains the surest defense against tyranny, and it's a tragic sign of our times that so many courageous journalists are repressed, imprisoned or killed, and that their oppressors act with impunity.
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And yes, Virginia, yes there absolutely are references to kulaks: The socialist narrative names the oppressors of the vulnerable, such as the bourgeoisie (Marx), kulaks (Lenin), landlords (Mao), and giant corporations (Sanders and Warren).
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In her books, the oppressed often possess an enormous capacity for agency—a supernatural ability, even, that their oppressors lack—but they exist in a society that has been engineered to hold them down.
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This founding myth of the post-apartheid nation says that a constitutional democracy geared toward giving rights to a black population that has been able to forgive its white oppressors is built for survival.
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Sadly, some also seem to have been attracted by the permission they felt -- rightly or wrongly -- Corbyn offered them to view first Zionists and ultimately Jews more generally as both oppressors and class enemies.
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The Tarantino films are fundamentally revenge movies, a way of giving historically oppressed groups some satisfaction against their oppressors (the best movie like this for us Jews is, weirdly enough, X-Men: First Class).
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The white queer community has a long history of failing black people — either supporting their oppressors or giving a free pass to bad people merely because they haven't harmed the LGBTQ spaces white people inhabit.
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As a founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, she declared herself a "pacifist even in the class struggle" although she professed to understand perfectly well why the poor wanted to rise up against their oppressors.
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His mission, therefore, was to lead the doubters and internet-oppressors gently into the new territory, disarming them with his cowboy hat and beard and with language which a poet or a cowhand could understand.
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Kara Walker's "Virginia's Lynch Mob" (1998) seems to present a Saturnalian procession of oppressors and the oppressed as they take turns murdering each other and themselves, though nothing can be certain in this enigmatic work.
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Who the oppressors are is never entirely certain, but they must be located in Brazil, Colombia, Portugal and Atlanta, Georgia, because it is the sounds of those places that supply the soundtrack to her quest.
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Characters switch inexplicably from Hindi to English and back again, sometimes in the same conversation, the screenplay never missing an opportunity to contrast the high-mindedness of its heroine with the crassness of her oppressors.
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Reparations are offered to compensate the descendants of black slaves who suffered at the hands of their white oppressors, who were able to build wealth and derive privileges that were passed on to their progeny.
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Kanye's firebrand nature, fueled by the plaudits the Yeezus approach received, was now directed at everyone around him rather than solely at the oppressors above, and soon it would rain down on his marginalized fans.
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Kesha's promotion of her raw new music — including op-eds she has written for publications like Rolling Stone and Mic — has relied on not-so-veiled allusions to her oppressors without mentioning Dr. Luke explicitly.
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But while women like Halima might understand the language of their oppressors best, they also know it's in their interest to draw as little attention as possible to their negotiations with the Taliban, said Kakar.
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President Donald Trump's inaugural address envisions his presidency as a kind of national liberation, the moment when America is taken back from the rich, the corrupt, and the oppressors of generations and returned to the people.
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But over the last week, victims who have been relentless in the pursuit of justice for gross human rights abuses in Chad and South America rejoiced as their former oppressors were convicted in two landmark trials.
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"For more than 50 years Cubans have been fleeing the Castro regime yet the country which grants them refuge, the United States, has now decided to quite literally embrace their oppressors," she said in a statement.
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Witchcraft is about conjuring strength and agency from within and not bowing down to arbitrary authority, so it's a reminder that your oppressors, your trauma, and your government don't have to define you — or break you.
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The third reason is that most Muslims who are likely to feel solidarity with their oppressed coreligionists think of the oppressors as "the West," defined as the capitalist, hedonist, Zionist civilization led by the Great Satan.
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What if you're given a modicum of creative freedom — even success — as long as you don't overtly criticize your oppressors, and as long as you're not the type, politically or racially, that they've sworn to eradicate?
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In her much-tweeted-about acceptance speech, Portman eviscerated Hollywood predators, reductive myths about women in the workforce, and those who uphold systems in all industries that repress women and allow their oppressors and abusers to thrive.
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"We call on every Black woman from every American city, every walk of life, every demographic to rise together within our differences and face our common oppressors," the March for Black Women said on its event page.
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For Douglass identified himself as a Christian throughout his life, and his gesture reminds us that slaves absorbed and reimagined the religion of their oppressors in their own morally original terms, as a permanent bulwark against persecution.
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They could believe in the goodness of their motives, because they were on the side of the "wretched of the earth" and against those whose relative wealth both in Israel and in the diaspora made them obvious oppressors.
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Co-opting the language and posture of grievance is how members of a privileged class express their belief that the way they live shouldn't have to change, that their opponents are hypocrites and perhaps even the real oppressors.
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The final scene, in particular, reminds us that weapons are not the only way to fight back against oppressors, an idea that's been left behind as Hollywood has moved towards churning out bigger, bolder artillery with visual effects.
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So, whether it was a communist "victory" or defeat, the constant theme of U.S. policy was to indulge the feelings of the oppressors' leaders, not those of the liberated Eastern Europeans or the students and workers in China.
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And you're glad to see me go down not because it's about time the oppressors were punished but because it kills guys like you to see guys like me enjoy our fucking allotment of years on this planet.
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"The poor have been paying alms to the rich and the rich don't pay, and it's the tyrants and oppressors who are the ones getting this money," AQAP fighter Ali bin Talib al-Kathiri said in another video.
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At the same gathering, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said, "Quds belongs to Islam, Muslims and the Palestinians, and there is no place for new adventurism by global oppressors," according to Mizan, the news site for the Iranian judiciary.
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Gandhi bore no hatred for his oppressors, did not speak or write a harsh word about them but, with his large and growing band of associates, offered the toughest resistance through what he called satyagraha, or soul force.
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Reflecting on what happened to my grandparents during the Cultural Revolution, and seeing picture after picture of Muslims reciting laws and being forced to do hard, manual labor, I wondered how it was possible for oppressors to oppress.
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I felt it was a little passe and I worry that, not worry, but it feels like white heterosexual men have become generally accepted oppressors in our society and I wonder if that's a- Which is factually true.
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That she turns the gun on Lydia after seeming like she might shoot June is meant to suggest, I guess, that even those who have drunk the Gilead Kool-Aid know who the real oppressors are in the end.
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" This becomes evident in an early inner-monologue from Bigger, who, while playing an arcade basketball game on the South Side, refers to his oppressors' motives with respect to the Black community: "Keep them fed and entertained and stupid.
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The question of whether robots will eat all the jobs is orthogonal to the question of whether people believe robots will eat all the jobs — and whether the tech industry will be viewed as the oppressors of the masses.
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Jacob Tobia: Figuring out how to navigate emotions is really tough, because one of the tools that our oppressors have gotten really good at is inundating us with so much bad news that we lose hope and give up.
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At the appointed hour, their 12th imam, who disappeared in 941 to avoid the persecution Sunni despots had inflicted on his 11 predecessors (pictured below), would return as al-mahdi al-muntadhar, "the awaited saviour", and vanquish the oppressors.
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The work was created for the Lyon Dance Biennial in 2002, which had a Latin American theme and it evokes a world in which people are victims and oppressors, the hunted and the hunters, the dead and the living.
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B.E.: Considering Hannah Arendt's warning that the forces of domination and exploitation require "thoughtlessness" on behalf of the oppressors, how is the capacity to think freely and in an informed way key to providing a counter to violent practices?
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Monday the Mexican government is struggling to keep journalists safe and prosecute their oppressors, after officials toured regions of the country that are among the most dangerous in the world for reporters.
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The body positive activist shared an article from feminist website Wear Your Voice titled, "Stop Mourning Oppressors: Condolences For Karl Lagerfeld" on Twitter along with a brutally honest statement calling out the fashion industry icon for his past fat-shaming remarks.
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In the words of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the president of Egypt at the time, the Suez Canal rightfully belongs to his country, but is currently in the hands of the British and French, whom he refers to as colonial oppressors.
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What Americans don't see are the bombed-out homes, the jails teeming with tortured political prisoners or the sea of orphans, widows and bereaved relatives — many of whom suffer because of aid and comfort supplied by the US to their oppressors.
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Remember how we imagined, full of triumphal optimism, that social media would become the web that knit the oppressed masses together, would empower them to join forces and overthrow their oppressors and stride shoulder-to-shoulder together into a better world?
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In slave society, black preachers played an important role in the community: They acted as seers interpreting the significance of events; as pastors calling for unity and solidarity; and as messianic figures provoking the first stirrings of resentment against oppressors.
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In her work, Eubanks has suggested something close to a Hippocratic oath for those of us working with algorithms — an intent to do no harm, to stave off bias, to make sure that systems did not become cold, hard oppressors.
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"We do not condone her actions and hope Natasha learns from this experience that black women feel the effects of systematic racism the most and that we have to be allies, not oppressors," California Coldblood said in a statement Friday.
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I'm skeptical of the way "empathy" is used in the discourse around video games; I don't think anyone should have to package their oppression into a product easily consumed by their oppressors in order to have their concerns taken seriously.
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The more than 1,000 victims of child sexual abuse by Pennsylvanian Catholic priests are unlikely to see justice carried out on their oppressors, as the revelations from a grand jury's damning report have likely surfaced too late for any legal repercussions.
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Sergei Lebedev, a writer whose novel "Oblivion" treats the turmoil of a descendant grappling with the legacy of the camps — both the oppressed and the oppressors — said he was concerned the Russian government would consider its work done with the monument.
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"Identity politics subsumes individuals in a tribal unit, and defines them not according to the dictates of their conscience or mind, but according to the historical circumstances of the tribe, and its relationship to actual or would-be oppressors," wrote Menashi.
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Framed this way, with the Jews as "global conspirators" on one side and the hordes of black and brown upstarts on the other, the demonstrators get to be activists in a valiant struggle for liberation from both sets of oppressors.
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While there are moderates out there who say that the best response to the increasing aggression of oppressors and bigots is to be the better person and practice empathy, sometimes you just have to destroy a motherfucker to get your point across.
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Instead of going along with the received wisdom that the Jedi are virtuous crusaders for peace and justice, and that imperial oppressors have to be fought at all costs, Mr Johnson keeps questioning and mocking everything we took for granted about the series.
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Both also end with the female protagonists pushing back and defeating their male oppressors; "USS Callister" specifically ends with a group of AI copies of human beings, living inside a simulated Star Trek-like game universe, free to explore an infinite universe.
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That does not mean Mosul's inhabitants support IS—according to a nationwide survey in January, 95% of Iraqi Sunnis oppose it—but it does suggest that they are at least as fearful of their potential liberators as they are of their oppressors.
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Havel, who had spent much of the previous decade in a communist dungeon and whose last arrest as a dissident had been a mere four months before, was quite astonished to find himself president of anything, much less the country of his oppressors.
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And yet, that's what happened with the XCOM-meets-Indiana Jones tactics game Pathway, the Lovecraft (without ignoring whole racism thing) adventure game The Sunken City, and the game about raising a cute bird that's actually about destroying your oppressors, Falcon Age.
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Responding to writers like Mr. Hanlon above and a New York Times Op-Ed by Ulrich Baer, a vice provost at New York University, Mr. Chait rejects the notion that free speech is a "zero-sum conflict" between the oppressed and their oppressors.
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Education is always a form of political intervention, which at its best produces critically minded individuals who have the courage to speak truth to power and stand alongside the globally oppressed, because they remember violence that the oppressors would prefer to forget. 4.
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"Identity politics subsumes individuals in a tribal unit, and defines them not according to the dictates of their conscience or mind, but according to the historical circumstances of the tribe, and its relationship to actual or would-be oppressors," wrote Menashi in 2001.
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"The neo-Marxist analysis of society, in which we are all mere appendages of various groups of oppressors and oppressed, and in which the oppressed definitionally cannot be at fault, is now the governing philosophy of almost all liberal media," Sullivan writes.
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But both Christian and non-Christian critics have pointed out "forgiveness" is too often required of marginalized people against their oppressors, placing the burden on those afflicted by tragedy or crime to uphold the status quo at the expense of real change.
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It means the movie that will be made about our meaty struggle against the borg oppressors will be even better, cause it'll feature wing-ed beasts scratching away at the inner wiring of an airborne termination unit, a dog fight between nature and creation. Wow!
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Clauses about "political offenses" are widespread in extradition treaties, and the idea behind them was to protect people "who justly fought back against their government oppressors to secure political change," U.S. Circuit Judge Karen Williams wrote in a 2007 ruling about an extradition to Peru.
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Opener "Praise Azalea the Adversary" takes nearly two minutes to build to a howling declaration that exits in less time than it arrived and "And the World Throws Off Its Oppressors" feels like a mandatory reprieve from the longer, more chaotic songs that surround it.
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Instead, he longed to examine both the seductiveness of fascism for those who would be oppressors under it and the ways that most of us are only too happy to go along with horrible things, so long as they don't rattle our own status quo.
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Dolores and the other hosts started a bloody revolt against their human oppressors in last season's finale, and "Westworld" has now shifted into a wide-open space where the androids are getting their first taste of freedom but discovering a new set of challenges.
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A new civil rights movement in Pakistan is galvanizing a rapidly growing following among the country's ethnic Pashtun minority by doing the nearly unthinkable: openly accusing the powerful and popular Pakistani military establishment of being "oppressors" who kill or whisk away Pashtuns by the thousands.
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Luckily, Julio's new companions come to his aide: From hardy construction workers to male prostitutes, the solidarity of the poor against the rich and the resentment of the oppressed against their oppressors, creates a supportive enough environment to hold out a promise that Julio's luck may turn.
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There are images of African leaders, like Lumumba, portrayed as grand and dignified statesmen, alongside striking evocations of brotherly solidarity between Europeans and Africans: in some posters men, women, and children of different races are depicted marching happily together, arm-in-arm, against their colonial oppressors.
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The New Order managed something remarkable, and not just with its sci-fi, alternate history, what-if-Nazis-won backdrop: There was a concrete understanding, communicated through the game, that the furious violence of the oppressed resistance was not equivalent to the violence of their oppressors.
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The characters not only have to literally save the world by throwing off the shackles of its oppressors (the top 1 percent of the 1 percent), but they also have to find the time to redistribute that wealth back to the people it's been taken from.
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But through the subsequent study of his trial testimony, scholars and researchers, artists and critics, writers and curators, pieced together the crucial cargo of that mind: a narrative, a vision that black people who had been colonized were up to the task of fighting off their oppressors.
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Wesley Yang's debut essay collection takes its name from W. E. B. Du Bois' classic The Souls of Black Folk, which coined the term "double consciousness" to refer to the burden on black Americans to constantly consider themselves through their own eyes and through the eyes of their oppressors.
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In Gucci's case, the relationships between the oppressed and the oppressors are much less easily definable, but there's something to be said about a white man feeling like he needs to make a point that his magpie approach to cultural symbols is not only okay, but it is necessary.
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Applications are pending in our State and Treasury Departments and the administration has 120 days from the receipt of recommendations from Congress to determine whether identified oppressors will be denied travel authorization to come to the U.S. or use any facet of our domestic or international banking system.
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As they fight to preserve their way of life, they offer an inspiring example of what can happen when women band together and stand up to their oppressors, one that feels especially relevant as sex workers across America continue to fight for greater protections and for the decriminalization of their profession.
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I wish that, along with her examination of the horrors visited on Native Americans and their subsequent attempts at making peace with their white oppressors, Beam had spent time investigating how empathy has acted between whites and African-Americans — maybe that was just too overwhelming, or too lacking in workable solutions.
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This sentiment is reminiscent of the work of Cuban artist Erik Ravelo, who faced issues of censorship by Facebook over his inflammatory photo series, Los Intocables, which portrayed children crucified against the backs of their oppressors — including a young boy in his underwear hanging from the back of a Catholic priest.
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Haidt applies this to the 2016 election: Translated to the Trump phenomenon, I would say that decades of political correctness, with its focus on "straight white men" as the villains and oppressors — now extended to "straight white cis-gendered men" — has caused some degree of reactance in many and perhaps most white men.
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Majority groups or oppressors have long used impure foods to intimidate or disgrace the faithful of any out group faith—the Romans, for example, reportedly forced Christians to drink wine they'd offered as a tribute to the pagan god of the vine, Bacchus, making it impure in the eyes of early believers in Jesus.
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The series gets around a problem TV has always faced when telling stories about invasions — namely, that we expect to see the humans overthrow their alien oppressors sooner or later — by simply suggesting there's no good way for mankind to prevail in whatever war might result between the two species, at least not right now.
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But when you're trying to thread the needle of a narrative about AI fighting human oppressors, and the story's solution is to (temporarily) extinguish 90 percent of its main cast while shuffling the identities of its remaining players around, the story's emotional core starts to feel like it's being hidden under a cup and balls trick.
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The aggressions licensed by moral entitlement, the veneer of bad faith: those things are evident in a wide range of phenomena, from slaveholders' religion-tinctured justifications to the Nazi bureaucrats' squeamishness about naming the activity they were organizing, neither of which would have been necessary if the oppressors were really convinced that their victims were beasts.
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Four decades ago, the word had much more in common with Latin American liberation theology than it did with "Lean In." In 1968, the Brazilian academic Paulo Freire coined the word "conscientization," empowerment's precursor, as the process by which an oppressed person perceives the structural conditions of his oppression and is subsequently able to take action against his oppressors.
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But he applied that standard to Venezuela, criticizing President Nicolas Maduro, immediately after touting his good relationship with one of the most repressive and abusive despots in the world -- Kim Jong Un. The takeaway for oppressors around the world is clear: The President has no consistent approach to those whom he will embrace and those whom he will abandon.
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"The NLD received public support and were voted into office due to their leadership role in the pro-democracy movement, because they did what was right and not because they acted like their oppressors," said Htuu Lou Rae Den, an organizer of an online campaign against the arrests and director of Coexist, a group promoting interfaith harmony.
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Devon Maloney: If I recall correctly, most bad men are simply executed in Gilead, but personally, the only kind of male suffering that would exhaust me less would take the form of victories for the women over their oppressors — if it was simply progressive, rebellious men also being worked and radiation-poisoned to death, that would just make it all worse for me.
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While the business association's opposition is understandable, the Alliance's refusal to support I-732 could look more like a case of left-wing movement in-fighting and injured egos, not unlike the scene in Monty Python's "Life of Brian" where the People's Front of Judea nurtures a bitter sectarian rivalry with the Judean People's Front in the struggle against their Roman oppressors.
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When I saw Escape-ism perform a few weeks after the Halloween show, at the Nocturne party in Williamsburg, he had the crowd in the palm of his hands, the responses to the calls on cue, until he shouted about how we had to stop being oppressed and had to "become the oppressors" and there was just a soft cough in response from the crowd.
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Co-written and directed by Desiree Akhavan (Appropriate Behavior), and adapted from the 2012 novel by Emily M. Danforth, the film's strength lies in the way it seeks to humanize all of its characters, from Cameron and her "disciple" friends Jane (Sasha Lane) and Adam Red Eagle (Forrest Goodluck) to their oppressors, God's Promise founder Lydia (Jennifer Ehle) and her brother, Reverend Rick (John Gallagher Jr.).
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He tells both sides of the story, too; looking not only at the persecution of gay people, but drawing on the lives and works of figures like Somerset Maugham, Oscar Wilde, Susan Sontag, and James Baldwin, in order to figure out why gay people traveled so much (it was usually to flee their oppressors) and why gay networks formed (mostly for sex and solidarity).
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A black woman and young girl wear the hoop skirts of their oppressors, and at the head of the parade, another young black woman, wearing a grass skirt, shoots like a cannonball into the sky, rocketing out of a drum major's big bass drum and nearly decapitating him in the process, with a musical note fluting from the deep, open wound in his neck.
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"While products like those of Cellebrite can have legitimate use in forensic acquisitions, and while we shouldn't demonize the technology behind them, there is always a concern that in countries where basic freedoms are regularly quashed and where we see a systematic abuse of technology to suppress dissent, these same solutions might become tools in the hands of oppressors," Claudio Guarnieri, technologist at Amnesty International, told Motherboard in an online chat.
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The singer drives that point home several times in the music video for her latest single, a clip from the rah-rah school of feminism that casts Lopez as a '50s housewife, a put-upon Joan Holloway-esque secretary, a Rosie the Riveter figure, a rad '80s businesswoman, and an angry, Howard Beale-channeling news anchor — who urges the rest of the Lopezes to rise up against their male oppressors.
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The Committee to Protect Journalists named President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE as the winner of its "Overall Achievement in Undermining Global Press Freedom" award in its "Press Oppressors" awards Monday.
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This plays two thematic ends to a middle: First, it forces us to see and experience the settlers as whole human beings, full of longing and disappointment and love and fear, but always in the context of the fathomless evil they're engaged in, benefit from and perpetuate; second, it echoes the very real ways in which abused and marginalized people have to empathize with their oppressors in order to anticipate their actions and ensure their own survival.
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And while the Obama administration has been unwilling or unable to recognize the Castro regime as the impediment to democracy for Cubans, President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE has illustrated his willingness to help the people of Cuba, not its ruthless oppressors.
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To reduce that pained cry for recognition to a matter of hurt feelings and a demand that the oppressed treat their oppressors with deference when asking for change is an insult not just to the minorities who have fought bitterly for every inch they've gained but to women who face real violence in their homes, the queer people murdered abroad by drone warfare and American occupying forces, the people of color shot in the streets of America's cities every day.
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Maybe you have internalized the debate over Democratic politics to such a degree that in your head you are playing out arguments and you find yourself outraged that establishment figures like Clinton preach unity right up until the moment it seems they will lose, and then all of a sudden they are willing to fracture the party and even contribute to a Trump victory, all to destroy the prospects of actual leftism, because they are cowards and traitors who are just tools of the capitalist oppressors—in that case, you need this photo of a cat in a box more than anything: Someday all of this will be forgotten.
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