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It oppresses a lot of people who don't deserve it at all.
The left-wing version is that white racism oppresses communities of color.
It at once oppresses and creates worker identity, acting consistently among all workers.
It cheats, oppresses and brutalizes, but it also educates, enriches and saves lives.
Gestalt really is one person, and what oppresses Gestalt is acting like they're not.
Instead of attacking what oppresses them, they attack what they fear will betray them.
This intolerance to free speech oppresses the people much like those in Bradbury's novel.
It oppresses disabled people and does nothing to deal with the root of the problem.
Maria provides pointers on the basics of capitalism and how it exploits and oppresses the workers.
You've chosen to join the system, to work against a system that they feel oppresses them.
His followers are a superstitious patriarchy that oppresses women and suppresses knowledge, and their influence is growing.
It's less zoomed in on Offred's stifled life, increasing its scope to the larger world that oppresses her.
"We can't truly oppose an oppressive regime with an opposition that is unjust and oppresses women," she added.
In other words, it's harder to dismiss homophobic black people in a world where white supremacy oppresses us.
They will stop being the radical regime that oppresses its own people and devours countries in the Middle East.
Appropriately for Sunday's events, the priest's sermon, which is filmed every week, addressed the way society oppresses marginalised people.
All she has to do is capitulate to the system that oppresses her, and be a very good girl.
Any classroom that is more interested in control than liberation is abetting the systemic white supremacy that oppresses our students.
She envisioned a society, like many traditional and tribal ones, that prizes women as "precious resources," but still oppresses them.
Surely we can do much better than burdening women with the responsibility of overhauling the very system that oppresses them.
And to me, it didn't really matter who went in there, the system still remains intact that oppresses people of color.
Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, oversees a theocratic regime that detains dissidents, restricts freedom of speech, and oppresses LGBT citizens.
To this day, it remains an authoritarian regime that oppresses its people, subverts the free press, and stifles a free society.
While critics on the left are concerned about economic power, those on the right are pushing a narrative that Silicon Valley oppresses conservatives.
"We decided to protest because we don't want to live in a country that demonizes and oppresses immigrant communities," Ball told Business Insider.
It should give pause to all those who try justifying the status quo while ignoring how it oppresses people and devastates the innocent.
But this case is also a window into the much broader problem of an often dysfunctional criminal justice system that particularly oppresses the indigent.
It is true that the Cuban government oppresses its people and deprives them of many freedoms, while helping to prop up the malevolent Venezuelan regime.
HANNITY: Geraldo, why not, if you come from a country that practices sharia, which you know oppresses so many individual groups, why not vet you?
" Kaepernick said he's "not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.
I know some feminist scholars are arguing that it's the capitalist system that oppresses people and oppressed Tubman in the day because she was enslaved.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," he said.
They have been dying in hundreds just to be heard by the very government that oppresses them and those beyond their shores, which enable their oppression.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of colour," he said.
Now more than ever, we must unite in our efforts to bring transparency to a system that oppresses those with mental health and substance use disorders.
Because it makes a ton of sense to favorably compare yourself to a rogue dictatorship that oppresses its citizens and suppresses free and independent media. 18.
"  Last week, Kaepernick said he would not "stand up and show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.
I practice feminism because I believe it is the only way to fight against a system that oppresses us and does not allow us to live fully.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," he told NFL.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick told reporters.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick he said.
Colin Kaepernick is defending his action to stay seated during the national anthem Friday night, saying he's got no desire to support a country that oppresses minorities.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," he said later.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick said later.
"When you're already on the margins, (sagging) is your way of giving the middle finger to the sensitivities of the very system that oppresses you," she said.
We can't give candidates a pass based on personal ideology: once someone is elected their personal feelings turn into public policy that oppresses the rest of us.
Many French feminists have taken the position that wearing a veil or other Muslim dress oppresses women and have backed limitations on wearing such attire in public.
She's burned people alive before, and she is concentrating on what matters most to her: breaking the wheel of violence that oppresses all the people of Westeros.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick told NFL.
" Kaepernick previously stated that he is "not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick told NFL Media.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick said last year.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," he told N.F.L. Media.
If passed, Bill HR 6054 would punish anyone wearing a mask or disguise who "injures, oppresses, threatens, or intimidates" someone else exercising a right guaranteed under the Constitution.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," he told NFL Media.
To many outsiders, the organization is little more than a cartoonish Praetorian Guard that oppresses dissent at home and supports a broad range of aggressive military ventures abroad.
A West that wants to help them can begin by exploiting the internal contradiction that defines the regime that oppresses them and which may yet prove its undoing.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," he tells NFL Media.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick said at the time.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick said at the time.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick explained at the time.
As one other famous woman, who knows a bit about swimming against the tide, likes to say -- "it's one more crack in the glass ceiling" that oppresses us all.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick said at the time.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," he said after the Aug.
And if we do go to a country ruled by a despot or military junta, will our currency benefit the nation's citizens or only the regime that oppresses them?
Should they continue to impose a sectarian, exclusionary approach, one that oppresses Sunnis and denies them rights, they will recreate the conditions that produced ISIS in the first place.
Behind the charge of Trump being a fascist is the fear that Trump, if elected president, will rule unilaterally in a way that oppresses certain segments of the population.
"I'm not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," he told NFL Media in August 2016.
"Our nation is at war with Islamic terror — the foreign horror that oppresses millions and intends to convert, kill or enslave the entire world," he said in a campaign video.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag that oppresses black people and people of color," the San Francisco 49ers player said at the time.
What they fail to realize is that secularism defies human rights; where it liberates one from forced religious practice, it oppresses the other that chooses to freely practice their religion.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," the quarterback said after the game.
RELATED: Cuban migrant crisis spells trouble for Marco Rubio "Cuba oppresses its people so bad that today we have a migratory crisis from Cuba that's being under-reported," Rubio said.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," he told NFL Media last month.
Textually, the point of Jezebel's is that it's another means by which the patriarchy oppresses women through their bodies, even in a society that is ostensibly organized around sexual chastity.
" He went on to say that a black man "must stand up amid a system that still oppresses him and develop an unassailable and majestic sense of his own value.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick said during his original protests.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," he argued during his original protests.
He gives his own, novel version of that narrative: that it's a story about a regime that oppresses both Israelites and Egyptians, and that the peoples themselves were not in conflict.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick told media outlets at the time.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick said in an interview with NFL.com.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick told Steve Wyche of NFL Media.
Man of Korea, a male-rights group, wants to abolish the country's Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, which it says oppresses men, for example by creating women-only parking spaces.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick told NFL Media in August 2016.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick told NFL Media at the time.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick told Steve Wyche of NFL Media.
But as Chase Strangio, staff attorney with the ACLU's LGBT & HIV Project, rightly pointed out on Twitter, the proposal doesn't address how the criminal justice system oppresses trans people of color.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick told NFL Media in August 2016.
They must recognize that while the state oppresses men and women alike, women are singled out for a special brand of oppression — by the state, the street and the home together.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick told the NFL after the game.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," he told NFL Media at the time.
It not only oppresses what the Chinese government considers a troublesome minority on its western frontier but also serves as a lab for the development of surveillance technology by Chinese companies.
Former San Francisco 49ers Colin Kaepernick was the first football player, in 2016, to not stand during the national anthem, saying he wouldn't do so for a country that oppresses black people.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick told NFL Media in a postgame interview.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," he said at the time, according to The Independent.
The Lanthimos aesthetic transposes seamlessly to a historical setting: the sense of remoteness, the intricate system of rules and manners, the powerful force that oppresses everyone, including the individual chosen to wield it.
Per the poll's phrasing, 53.4% strongly or somewhat oppose the protest of what some players call "a country that oppresses black people and people of color" — while 41.7% somewhat or strongly support the players.
In many ways, it's at the core of an idea of "humanity" that makes humans a special, protected class and, in the process, dehumanizes and oppresses anything that's not human, living or non-living.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick told Steve Wyche of NFL Media in August 4.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick told NFL Media at the outset of the controversy.
These massacres were painted as the acts of lone mad men, but they have a clear common thread: a desire to dominate women and a conviction that society oppresses men in favor of women.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," he told NFL Media in an interview published on Saturday.
"The Third Wife" presents a tableau of injustice — a male-dominated hierarchy that directly oppresses women and brings collateral misery to some men as well — from a perspective that feels both compassionate and detached.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a country that oppresses black people and people of color," said Colin Kaepernick, who started the protests, after a preseason game in 2016.
Any act or policy that sustains the lifeblood of the Communist dictatorship in Beijing is an offense to the peoples whom that dictatorship persecutes and oppresses — in Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong and mainland China.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick told NFL media in a postgame press conference on Aug.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick, 28, told Steve Wyche of NFL Media after the game.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick told Steve Wyche of NFL Media about the move afterwards.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick later told NFL Media in an article posted on Saturday.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses Black people and people of color," said Kaepernick, one of the few black quarterbacks in the league.
The Chinese Communist Party also has been building a massive surveillance state and concentration camps in the western Xinjiang region — where it imprisons and oppresses millions of Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic and religious minorities.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick, who is biracial and was adopted by white parents, said afterwards.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick, who is now without a team, told NFL Media last August.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick, who is currently without a team, told NFL Media last August.
"It is true that we are a state under an occupation that persecutes, oppresses, seizes our land piece by piece, runs after our youth and destroys our homes," he said, according to reports from the event.
"Women are starting to stand up for themselves more, and we are realizing that we don't have to put up with a culture that oppresses us just for being women," said Lucía D'Agostino, 48, a psychologist.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," said Kaepernick in 2016, when he was playing for the San Francisco 49ers.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick said back in August of 2016 at the beginning of his effort.
Moreover, Russia has the dubious distinction of being a country that not only oppresses its religious minorities — it also exports such oppression, as is evidenced by the treatment of religious minorities in Russian-occupied Ukraine and Crimea.
When San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick declined to stand for the national anthem, to protest what he described as a nation that "oppresses" its minority populations, he illustrated the deep division in American life in 2016.
Kaepernick, who led San Francisco to the 2013 Super Bowl but has since been demoted to backup, has said he would not show pride in the flag of a country that oppresses people of color, citing police brutality.
The legitimacy to a people who oppresses its people before you as a United States president and leader of the free world meet and shake hands with this leader of North Korea which is oppressing his own people?
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick told NFL Media in an interview after the 2016 game when the protest began.
Read more: Shocking footage purportedly shows cells inside prison camp where China oppresses Muslim minority In a Wednesday statement on its website, Badger Sport said it will no longer work with Hetian Taida, nor import any products from Xinjiang.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses Black people and people of color," Kaepernick told NFL Media when the image of him sitting down went viral in late August.
Reducing men's worth to their bodies is not harmful in the same way that it is harmful to do the same to women: one of the ways that the patriarchy systemically oppresses women is by reducing them to their bodies.
"We will cooperate with the world to make the North Korean regime abandon its reckless nuclear development and end tyranny that oppresses freedom and human rights of our brethren in the North," Park said at a Christian prayer meeting on Thursday.
Colin Kaepernick -- at the time with the San Francisco 49ers -- initially sparked controversy when he refused to stand for the National Anthem last year, saying he would not display pride for a flag that "oppresses black people and people of color."
Many critics of religious attire say it oppresses women, is physically restrictive and isolates them from mainstream society; many defenders say it is a religious obligation or, in some cases, a matter of individual identity and an expression of one's heritage.
What had once been seen as an intractable regional conflict between a democracy and a series of authoritarian regimes trying to destroy it is now seen as a conflict between a white colonialist power and the brown people it oppresses.
What had once been seen as an intractable regional conflict between a democracy and a series of authoritarian regimes trying to destroy it is now seen as a conflict between a white colonialist power and the brown people it oppresses.
I worry that if June is protected by plot armor for too long, the show will start to feel more and more silly and escapist and cathartic, like a fantasy, and less like an examination of power and how it oppresses.
"If this caravan bothers him, then it also bothers me that he supported people like Juan Orlando who oppresses the people, destroys the economy of the country, and creates a humanitarian crisis," Irineo Mujica, director of Pueblos Sin Fronteras, told BuzzFeed News.
Even Gilead's gruesome aspects, like public executions, are cloaked in biblical allusion; they're called "Salvagings," as if being beaten to death were act of of salvation But, as Offred realizes, Gilead oppresses through deliberate manipulation, not open-minded interpretation, of the Bible.
The US believed that they had secured a military ally in Syria in the fight against ISIS without ignoring that the PYD was a Stalinist terrorist organization that oppresses even its own people and not a legal democratic party as suggested by some.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick told the publication after the 49ers fell to the Green Bay Packers in a preseason game on Friday night.
Kaepernick, who said he was protesting racial injustices by refusing "to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," immediately drew the ire of some fans and politicians alike, who considered the gesture unpatriotic.
Rather, they threaten the return of longstanding tendency in modern secular polities — an institutionalized anti-Catholicism that effectively oppresses the church even if it stops short of persecuting it, a form of liberalism that is (if you will) integrally opposed to my religion's flourishing.
And as world leaders pile in for Mr Maduro or against him, they are battling over an important idea which has lately fallen out of favour: that when a leader pillages his state, oppresses his people and subverts the rule of law, it is everybody's business.
"Our country must be sadly lacking in invention and genius if it cannot produce some design for our flag in which there shall be no form whatever either stars or stripes, which our government that oppresses us has forever polluted," stated The Richmond Examiner in March 1862.
Kaepernick's stance — he explained his protest by saying, in part, "I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color" — and the tactics he used have been harshly criticized by NFL players, owners, and coaches.
" In 2016, Colin Kaepernick, a San Francisco 49ers quarterback at the time, drew national attention for refusing to stand during "The Star-Spangled Banner," saying he would not honor a song nor "show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.
As the subtitle implies, "The Dispossessed" contrasts two forms of social organization: a messy but vibrant capitalist society, which oppresses its underclass, and a classless "utopia" (partly based on the ideas of the Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin), which turns out to be oppressive in its own conformist way.
"We will not allow the power that orchestrated dictatorships in Latin America and oppresses people across the world to cleanse itself and use the memory of our 30,000 murdered compatriots to strengthen its imperialist agenda," the Buenos Aires-based Center for Human Rights Advocates said in a statement.
Working with youth was the best job I'd ever had, but by funding many of these organizations, the federal government is able to monitor, derail, and disrupt social justice movements by recruiting activists into career-based models of "activism" that replicate the same capitalistic system that oppresses us to begin with.
What's more, this season has been so interested in the power dynamics among women that keep a system that oppresses them in place that it makes sense for the season to introduce a shadowed, parallel story about the same thing happening among men competing vainly for dominance in a dying world.
Colin Kaepernick, formerly of the San Francisco 49ers, started the anthem protests in opposition to police brutality, particularly toward "I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick told NFL Media in August 2016.
HR 6054 would have punished anyone wearing a mask or disguise who "injures, oppresses, threatens, or intimidates" someone else exercising a right guaranteed under the Constitution The bill's title -- "Unmasking Antifa Act of 2018" -- made it clear that Antifa activists were its target, but the text of the bill, sponsored by US Rep.
She is thoughtful about how the capitalism of the West oppresses the factory workers of the East; in one passage, Candace has to find a cheap supplier of faux gemstones for a Bible, even though she has explained to her client that making the gems quickly creates a gritty, dust-laden air that will kill the workers who produce them.
Crosby's reading of a Poe story in which "every element of the narrative is overcharged with significance, every detail mysteriously endowed with a blank surplus that oppresses rather than enlightens"—and that continually invites the reader to try to figure out what's going on while repeatedly frustrating those efforts—could certainly be applied to Khakpour's book, with its paranoid logic and spiralling, dizzying structure.
He said he did so in response to police-involved shootings aimed at unarmed black Americans and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, stating, "I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," a reasoning he expounded on on August 22009, 2017: I have great respect for the men and women that have fought for this country.
Read more:Mysterious automated calls, vanished relatives, and sinister Facebook comments: How China intimidates Uighurs who don&apost even live in the countryDevastating leaks have deprived China of its main strategy to deflect mounting evidence of its mass oppression of Uighur MuslimsMaps show 500 suspected &aposre-education&apos camps and prisons in XinjiangChina used a file-sharing app to round up 40,000 Uighur Muslims for prison camps, a startling insight into how it oppresses people via technology

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