Those who do the oppressing see those they're oppressing and that's part of their gratification.
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Number two, I couldn't initially tell anyone that I was a sex worker, because at that time, the police were oppressing us, goons were oppressing us, landlords were oppressing us, and even the people who lived nearby continually oppressed us.
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Nowadays, they focus on feelings of deprivation (like being "kissless" or "involuntarily celibate") and on flipping feminist narratives to suit their own interests (I'm not oppressing you, you're oppressing me!).
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The burka and burkini often get criticized for oppressing women.
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They talk all day about "The Man" oppressing their people.
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Killmonger believes that justice means colonizing the colonizers and oppressing the oppressors.
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It's because there's a system in place that is also oppressing people.
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He thinks that oppressed groups, nowadays, are the ones doing the oppressing.
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Or that has a history of oppressing people who look like you?
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So this is black leaders oppressing the voices of black property owners.
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"Our religious tradition repeatedly forbids us from oppressing the stranger," that statement reads.
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"It's interesting because, you know, people just love oppressing each other," she laughs.
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They're providing the tools and tactics dictators need to continue oppressing their people.
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Both increase during heat waves—like the one oppressing Miami at the moment.
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From the start, Almagro criticized Caracas for oppressing its citizens and rigging elections.
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Iraq's Saddam Hussein was both oppressing his own subjects and menacing his neighbors.
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"So I don't know who these people think marriages are oppressing," he says.
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Suddenly she was the one oppressing him, via the forces of PC fascism.
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Trump criticized Venezuela's socialist president, Nicolas Maduro, on the campaign trail for oppressing Venezuelans.
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And capitalism is a kind of fascism, too—it's the rich oppressing the poor.
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The people who accuse Muslims of oppressing women are now dictating what we should wear.
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You can take sadistic pleasure in oppressing those less powerful than you, like Aunt Lydia.
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Or will I actually face these people who are oppressing me and actually fight back?
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Bottom line: It protects you from the government punishing or censoring or oppressing your speech.
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Others are afraid it could start another 40 years of the regime oppressing its people.
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In online posts and videos, Abdurakhmanov has been highly critical of Kadyrov for oppressing opponents.
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The allyship, even the people who are oppressing, I like that they're becoming more woke.
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And they are engaging in looting — and, more importantly, in killing, torturing, and oppressing civilians. 2.
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But the group's sectarian focus did not keep it from oppressing Sunni civilians under its rule.
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Racist oligarchs don't have a history of oppression—in fact, they're the ones doing the oppressing!
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We refuse to build technologies that aid the powerful in oppressing the vulnerable, wherever they may be.
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"You can't keep oppressing people, whether they're Asian, Hispanic or whatever," said Anderson, chomping on a cigar.
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They're racially comfortable stories that suggest oppressing white people is wrong and unnatural, and doomed to failure.
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She is now a politician, and oppressing a minority like the Rohingya is popular with mostly Buddhist voters.
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"We need to learn from the people we've been oppressing," he told the Bay State Banner last year.
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While oppressing his own people internally; externally, Maduro and his backers are spreading their vices across the Americas.
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The murderous theocratic regime celebrates newfound relief from international sanctions while being allowed to continue oppressing its citizens.
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Read more: This map shows a trillion-dollar reason why China is oppressing more than a million Muslims
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All while American cops actually give their lives while protecting the very communities they are accused of oppressing.
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Like Jones, Trump sees dark conspiracies everywhere — an elite that's secretly oppressing Americans, and that only he can fix.
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"We object to technologies that aid the powerful in oppressing the vulnerable, wherever they may be," the letter says.
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As head of a new government oppressing the Rohingya population, some have called for her award to be revoked.
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Democracy, without well-run controls, often can be subverted into the means for oppressing minorities and outright brainwashing people.
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They reject concentrations of power because dominant groups tend to abuse their privileges, oppressing others and subverting the common good.
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"The Egyptian regime now is the biggest aide of terrorist organizations through oppressing and terrorizing youth inside prisons," Youssef said.
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In the aftermath of disasters, financial help can sometimes go to the abuser, further oppressing the victim, Ms. Phillips said.
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He's simply a racist who wants to keep the current system but deny its benefits to groups he's interested in oppressing.
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Unfortunately, this reclamation of the "bitch" tag to empower Hillary Clinton erases the word's long and odious history of oppressing women.
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Trump's tweet followed his statement over the weekend about Fidel Castro's death, in which he condemned Castro for oppressing his people.
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The West accused him of rigging elections, rights abuses and oppressing opponents before he was ousted after a coup in 2017.
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That is insane: ISIS is already murdering or enslaving Christians, Yazidis and other religious minorities; executing gays; destroying antiquities; oppressing women.
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You're not just doing a job; you're doing a job for The Nation, a country that is clearly oppressing its people.
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I never hear Jesus going out of his way to point an accusing finger at people who are oppressing the poor.
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But the need for reparations, just like the white history of oppressing and discriminating against black people, does not end there.
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Wearing outdoor shoes in the office is one of the most oppressing aspects of "business casual"—at least, for yours truly.
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They aren't created with the goal of oppressing women, but they are born from the lingering perception that women's bodies are indecent.
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Those who believe in oppressing women, gays, Hispanics, African-Americans and people of different faiths are not welcome to join our country.
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It's a different country, in that black people are the majority so the minority was oppressing the majority, as opposed to America's history.
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The Offshore isn't overtly oppressing the rest of the country, it's just abandoned it, retreating to a place that genuinely can't accommodate everyone.
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In March a German comedian recited a satirical poem about him "shagging goats and oppressing minorities" (only the more serious charge is true).
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China and India, two economic powerhouses with some of the largest populations in the world, are brutally oppressing their ethnic and religious minorities.
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The country has for years denied oppressing the Uighurs, a mostly-Muslim ethnic minority in western China, with intrusive surveillance and mass detentions.
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The Nazis did their hideous work of oppressing, then exterminating Jews by making of them something less than human — something more like animals.
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History shows that individuals are more likely to ignore unethical behavior if the victims are weak and the institution oppressing them is strong.
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But it's not great for one culture to take the products of another culture's creativity while simultaneously oppressing the people of that culture.
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How can we stand in solidarity as a movement, Kendall asks, when there is the distinct likelihood that some women are oppressing others?
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Yet progressive groups say that military aid should have more oversight to ensure it's not being used in policies seen as oppressing Palestinians.
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"If they cannot stop oppressing us, we will not stop resisting," said Mohamed Soltan, a human-rights activist and friend of Mr. Khashoggi's.
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Most modern libertarians are individualists, motivated by a desire to prevent the masses from oppressing the individual through the mechanism of democratic government.
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We need to stop complaining about white people oppressing us, we shouldn't boycott the Oscars, and we need to support Chris Rock the host.
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Instead, we are awash in whole-hearted affirmations of this most canonical and retrograde of forms, the time-honored trophy of the oppressing classes.
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He also said Cuba should stop harboring U.S. fugitives, stop interfering in the United States' bilateral trade with Venezuela and stop oppressing its people.
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Many view the message of "All Lives Matter" as a way of undermining the Black Lives Matter movement and further oppressing people of color.
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"However, a tyranny led by Raúl Castro and its repressive apparatus remains in place oppressing the Cuban people," Ros-Lehtinen said in a statement.
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Saudi Arabia sought to match Iran's reach but, after years of oppressing its own Shiite population, struggled to make inroads with those in Iraq.
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Who doesn't want to root for an artist to be able to perform their work, or root for Big Business to stop oppressing musicians?
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But broadly speaking, this movement says women are the problem, and that women's complaints about sexism are really about nothing more than oppressing men.
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In the past, Fox News has blared out the theory of oppressing women and done its best to dismiss or cover up the practice.
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Huertas himself advocates for "science justice," which includes sharing research results more equitably, preventing science institutions from oppressing others, and preventing the censorship of science.
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"The impending Amazon deal was far from the only way capitalism is oppressing working class Queens residents and New Yorkers," it said in a statement.
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Are people who go to war, against an evil regime, on the same moral ground as those they seek to stop from oppressing the weak?
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I've been on the side of all the people you've been oppressing this whole time, so I'm glad you got around to me by now.
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What is truly repugnant is funding terrorism, oppressing your own citizens, lying to the international community, holding "death to America" rallies, and pursuing nuclear terrorism.
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But it is also important to remember that such groups, too, are capable of oppressing their own members, for example by enforcing restrictive moral codes.
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It also promotes this notion that the pure, untouched female body is the best body, and that idea has led to centuries of oppressing women.
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Human rights activists believe the administration has held off on imposing sanctions on Chinese officials involved in oppressing the Uighurs to avoid upsetting trade negotiations.
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History of oppression It isn't the first time the Chinese government has been accused of oppressing minorities in Xinjiang or other parts of the country.
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They run between dictators and the people they've been oppressing for generations; between progressives and medievalists; between Sunni and Shiite; between majority populations and minorities.
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Especially when the source of that state is a member of the group that's oppressing you, and especially when that oppression often leads to marriage?
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In other words, modesty on its own is not oppressing women — if women in these oppressed communities started wearing bikinis, they'd still continue to be oppressed.
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Ottinger's images are carefully crafted to queer as a verb; they're imbued with the angst of being oneself in a world intent on oppressing your personhood.
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Viewed from another angle, though, the same content may be upholding those social norms, by oppressing and dehumanizing women, people of color, and other marginalized communities.
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The government's crackdown, while dangerous to Israeli society, is ultimately a means for the Netanyahu government to continue deepening the occupation and oppressing millions of Palestinians.
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It's a "we're not going to take this" and "you're going to accept us for who we are and stop oppressing us" moment in the movie.
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The ideal human being was a gender-neutral hen whose foremost task in life was to avoid oppressing any religion or culture by preferring their own.
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The Egyptian military officers likely are more comfortable with the idea of oppressing a minority in the name of stability and enforcing the regional security order.
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It is one of fate's grand ironies that those who literally feed off the weak and dying should stand together against those oppressing society's most vulnerable.
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They concluded that culture and the use of the media was the primary tool for oppressing the masses without the masses realizing that they're being oppressed.
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"Our opposition to Dragonfly is not about China: we object to technologies that aid the powerful in oppressing the vulnerable, wherever they may be," the letter reads.
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"Our opposition to Dragonfly is not about China: we object to technologies that aid the powerful in oppressing the vulnerable, wherever they may be," Google employees wrote.
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It's just a video with him, the never ending silence of the ocean oppressing him as he looks off into the horizon, and a volcano going off.
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"Our opposition to Dragonfly is not about China: we object to technologies that aid the powerful in oppressing the vulnerable, wherever they may be," the letter says.
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So I think we should all look at this story, in the sense that this was one person who stood against a system that was oppressing people.
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Ali saw a white power structure that was oppressing black and brown citizens and was also asking him to go kill people of color in another country.
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Turkey, on the other hand, has contributed to the problem by denying Kurds many basic rights, attempting to assimilate them, and oppressing their cultural identity and language.
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"We object to technologies that aid the powerful in oppressing the vulnerable, wherever they may be," the employees said in the letter published on the blogging service Medium.
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But to anyone who believes in equality between the genders, there is genuinely no humour to be found in jokes that make oppressing or hating women the punchline.
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The Myanmar government is not only oppressing individuals; it is also trying to eradicate the Rohingya people as an ethnic group, by claiming that it does not exist.
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And here's an excerpt: Our opposition to Dragonfly is not about China: we object to technologies that aid the powerful in oppressing the vulnerable, wherever they may be.
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"Our opposition to Dragonfly is not about China: we object to technologies that aid the powerful in oppressing the vulnerable, wherever they may be," the Google employees wrote.
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To rule Syria, the Assads had to tailor their approach to the numerous ethnic groups, at times appealing to or oppressing them, or setting them against one another.
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"To feel injustice and be conscious of who is oppressing you—you will act as a human being, whether you are a woman or a man," she said.
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His sympathy for victims of oppression turns cold when the countries doing the oppressing are Vladimir Putin's Russia, Nicolás Maduro's Venezuela or, in the 1990s, Slobodan Milosevic's Serbia.
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There's this idea that speech is violent, that simply by espousing a view that you don't like I am attacking you, I am oppressing you, I am assaulting you.
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It made it clear to me that it isn't just like men oppressing women; we're all oppressed by these ideas of limitations that we have for ourselves and other people.
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While the show has filmed there for years, this spring, the store posted a sign in their window that said "Fuck Portlandia" and accused the show of oppressing marginalized people.
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He accused the YPG and other groups of "making efforts to establish an order by oppressing Kurds, who don't obey them, and their terrorist activities against our country," Anadolu reported.
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It felt revolutionary for me to consider that my disordered eating and my constant feelings of inadequacy about my physical appearance were oppressing me in ways I hadn't even considered.
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Yet from the Palestinian and Arab point of view, this vast Jewish apparatus supporting Israel is a cultural, political, and economic lifeline to a state that's viciously oppressing its people.
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Echoing Mr. Putin's view, Mr. Orban has publicly accused Ukraine of oppressing its Hungarian minority and has cast his eye on a section of Ukraine with a heavy Hungarian population.
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In 2003 armed groups began a rebellion in Darfur, a relatively prosperous region the size of Spain where black African locals complained that the government in Khartoum was oppressing them.
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Black women have not, for hundreds of years, succeeded in demonzsing or oppressing the Irish in any sort of state-backed regime that pitted the two groups against each other.
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Either way, the ritual offers a narrative and space for the person to focus on what is oppressing them, purge it, and create a positive intention for the self going forward.
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The regime is isolated, mysterious, paranoid, has a history of stirring up trouble in the region and has always used the threat of war as a pretext for oppressing its people.
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"Our opposition to Dragonfly is not about China: we object to technologies that aid the powerful in oppressing the vulnerable, wherever they may be," the Google employees said in their letter.
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"President Trump has asked that Maduro respect Venezuela's constitution, hold free and fair elections, release political prisoners, cease all human rights violations, and stop oppressing Venezuela's great people," the statement said.
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You can't have supported the marching in Ferguson, and applaud the Justice Department's findings that the city was systematically oppressing its black citizens, and allow Trump to pick the next attorney general.
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Trump is so disappointed in America's poor who refuse to smile at him while he's oppressing them that he ordered Trump Jr. to bring back some of the happy smiling ones from India.
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In the long run, maybe it's not so much about humanizing or dehumanizing, but rather a problem of creating a privileged class—humans—that we use to arbitrarily justify ignoring, oppressing, and exploiting.
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The tweet reaffirms Trump's hardliner stance on U.S.-Cuba relations, which became evident on Saturday when he released a statement in response to Fidel Castro's death that condemned him for oppressing his people.
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Hill-Burton, the first substantial inroads the US government made into health care, was designed to reinforce segregation, while enriching and empowering local political actors who were zealously invested in oppressing black people.
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" To their acolytes, these figures are exposing the way modern, liberal society is oppressing white men; to their critics, they are trading in the same false victimhood snake oil of interwar Europe's fascist "intellectuals.
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And notably, they're now charged with enforcing hate crime laws that include at least some of the LGBTQ community in most states — an effective reversal of roles, from oppressing LGBTQ communities to protecting them.
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If issues such as burkini ban persist, France is oppressing the majority of the Muslim population on their basic human rights and at the same time increasing Islamophobia (perhaps intentionally) in the non-Muslim population.
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"We express our strong protest and condemnation over the Beijing authorities luring Panama into breaking ties with us, oppressing our diplomatic space to maneuver and harming the feelings of the Taiwanese people," the statement continued.
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Throughout its struggle, the P.T.M. has accused the security forces of oppressing the country's Pashtun minority by waging communal justice against noncombatants in areas where militant groups operate, and by staging extrajudicial killings or kidnappings.
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He attacked Obama's move to normalize relations with Cuba, saying the U.S. made "major concessions" and Cuba changed "nothing" in how they behave in return, including harboring fugitives, collaborating with U.S. enemies and oppressing its citizens.
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In a video posted online on Monday, ARSA leader Ata Ullah, flanked by two gun-toting men in masks, warned Myanmar against "oppressing" Rohingya and vowed to keep fighting to protect the rights of the community.
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Clinton, on the other hand, always describes herself as a fighter, and it is her style to draw sharp lines between right and wrong—between people who are being oppressed and the people doing the oppressing.
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Which is why I find it so ironic when the same Christian leaders who put in the most footwork into oppressing us in this space try to use this tragedy as a talking point for their Islamophobia.
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This notion provides the premise of the video, which shows Bunny utilizing sexuality to lure the male lead—whom Coates says represents a Trump-like character bent on oppressing women and people of color—into a trap.
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History suggests the Guards will react by oppressing dissidents, an approach that political activists warn could fuel further violence in the southwest, where the attack took place, and where long-standing grievances have led to sporadic protests.
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" In the piece he published in The Huffington Post, Mr. Valls said he "contested with the greatest vigor" that the Times article quoted "Muslim women while suggesting that their voices are muzzled, to depict France as oppressing them.
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"He's like a governor in the locker room, holding court, telling stories, telling us we need to read more, telling us the Man is oppressing us, but always with a smile on his face," Richard Sherman told me.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's army said on Monday it had dropped a criminal complaint against a religious leader who told U.S President Donald Trump the military was oppressing Christians, days after the United States voiced concern about the lawsuit.
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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?
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Culture is not an excuse for oppressing women Margot Wallström, Sweden's foreign minister, became famous for initiating the world's first "feminist foreign policy", which makes the promotion of gender equality a top priority for Sweden's Foreign Ministry and embassies.
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These days we tend to see power less as the rightful inheritance of the world's winners (us!) and more as the end product of a disgraceful cycle of opportunists oppressing their way to the top of the human heap.
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The bigger issue, however, would be ensuring that they also have a stake in how their knowledge is used to make policy decisions in a country that has a long, dark history of oppressing and exploiting its indigenous peoples.
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"Since the start of this Administration, President Trump has asked that Maduro respect Venezuela's constitution, hold free and fair elections, release political prisoners, cease all human rights violations, and stop oppressing Venezuela's great people," Sanders said in a statement.
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The film's a lot about gender expectations, and I think that he feels he has to be this kind of alpha male and feels a security there, and then gravitates towards controlling Hunter, and then containing her and oppressing her.
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Back then, Kremlin propaganda drew a line between good Western workers and the evil capitalists oppressing them; this time, with no clear ideological split between the two systems of government, the very humanity of the other side is being impeached.
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The official said this was "very important" for the Trump White House to talk about, adding that the president stressed in many other meetings during his visit to Saudi Arabia that oppressing women will not lead to a great society.
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He presents himself as a strongman saviour, with the unique combination of wealth, insider knowledge, adamantine toughness and compassion for the common man to sweep aside the rotten status quo, and stop the mighty from oppressing those who cannot defend themselves.
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Today, China's ruling communists are brutally crushing pro-democracy movements in Hong Kong, detaining and oppressing ethnic minorities in Xinjiang by the millions, and making "waste paper" of international court rulings meant to curb the militarization of the South China Sea.
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YANGON (Reuters) - A Myanmar religious leader is facing a legal complaint from an army officer after telling U.S President Donald Trump the military was oppressing and torturing Christians in the Buddhist-majority country, he and a court official told Reuters.
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The totalitarian rulers in Huxley's book do this not by oppressing their citizens but by giving them exactly what they want, or what they think they want — which is basically sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll — and lulling them into complacency.
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In a country where political coalitions on the feminist left are crucial to the survival of basic women's rights, it doesn't make much sense to spend time oppressing a tiny population who are otherwise valuable allies in the culture war.
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I think there's an exponentially growing cache of contemporary explorations of African Diaspora culture in movies and TV. And I think that kind of exponential growth is related to the amount of time and energy spent oppressing us in media.
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It also continues a troubling American tradition wherein minority groups internalize their oppression by oppressing other vulnerable minorities, something we witnessed in the past when some Irish-American Catholics engaged in anti-Semitism despite themselves being subjected to anti-Catholic bias by Protestants.
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The resentment was learned early, in childhood lessons about gringos con colmillos, or fanged Americans, stealing territory in the 19th century and, more recently, oppressing the 36m Mexicans who live over the border, as many as 6m of them without legal papers.
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Indeed, their authority would be called an "Houthiocracy", combining the worst elements of both an autocratic and theocratic regime as evident and inspired by their Iranian patrons, and where a minority group with despotic tendencies are oppressing the general population under its control.
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BEIJING/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is discussing a visit for ambassadors to China's far western region of Xinjiang, where Beijing has been accused of oppressing ethnic Uighurs, but the trip is unlikely to happen unless certain conditions are met, diplomats said.
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Also, let's stop comparing an insult to a dehumanizing term used in oppressing Black people and sanctioning the Transatlantic Slave Trade, slavery, Jim Crow, lynching and the idea that Black men are so strong that they have to be shot 8 times.
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His father died, he was almost killed, he lost people important to him, and later in the game we find out that the coup he was deposed within was ultimately the end result of a racist system of cat people oppressing mouse people.
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Read more: This map shows a trillion-dollar reason why China is oppressing more than a million MuslimsTechCrunch was the first to report that the sites were part of a state-backed campaign to target Uighur people, citing sources familiar with the matter.
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But moves to make these companies more inclusive—moves that have been made in response to criticism of just how white and male these companies are—are being repositioned by tech's conservative critics to argue that companies like Google and Facebook are oppressing conservatives.
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You can't be a fractionalized group of people with the animosity and the pain and hurt that we go through and put it on another transgender person because we don't have the ability or can't get to the people who are doing the oppressing.
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The tech giant's vociferous staff, who recently staged a walkout in support of the #MeToo movement and also forced Google to cancel work for the Pentagon earlier this year, said that they "object to technologies that aid the powerful in oppressing the vulnerable, wherever they may be".
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The major cities of ancient Egypt, from Alexandria to Memphis, are represented here, and each of them has their own set of side missions and main plot content that helps tease out how their particular member of the Order is oppressing them in a unique way.
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"I find it so ironic when the same Christian leaders who put in the most footwork in oppressing us in this space try to use this tragedy as a talking point for their Islamophobia," Faith in America executive director Eliel Cruz told me in an interview Monday.
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If passed, the law would require social media companies in Vietnam to remove offending content from their platforms within one day of receiving a request from the Ministry of Information and Communications, and Vietnam's Ministry of Security, the government body tasked with oppressing dissent in the country.
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Some scholars have even argued (though I think they're not quite right) that the immigrant groups of the previous generation have only been able to fully assimilate into America by oppressing whoever was below them on the ladder of Americanness — and usually that was African Americans.
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DeSantis, who chairs the House Oversight Committee&aposs national security panel, this week expressed deep concern about the Cuban government&aposs record of oppressing its people, murdering Americans, and working with some of the world&aposs worst actors, including Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela, to undermine U.S. interests.
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"Ireland has a terrible history of oppressing women, and the legacy of the Catholic Church is control," she added, referring to the thousands of unmarried women who became pregnant and were placed into servitude or mental asylums since the 18th century until as recent as the mid-1990s.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE on Tuesday called the Democratic Party the "party of slavery," blaming them for oppressing African-Americans.
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"The fact they are working on a nuclear agreement doesn't take anything away from the fact Kim Jong-un is oppressing his people," said Hans Van de Weerd, vice president for United States programs at the International Rescue Committee, one of the organizations that helps settle North Koreans in the United States.
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As a Muslim who is not happy to see my coreligionists leave the faith, I have a great idea to share with the Iranian authorities: If they want to avert more apostasy from Islam, they should consider oppressing their people less, rather than more, for their very oppression is itself the source of the escape from Islam.
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Perhaps. But here's another explanation: when the president of the United States asserts that "both sides are to blame" for the violence that erupted in Charlottesville, people rightly sense that a government elected by a popular (electoral college) majority is forcing a distinctly minority viewpoint down the people's throats — that the minority is, in some way, oppressing the majority.
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And do you understand those people who say that you gave him the ultimate present — the legitimacy to a regime who oppress its people without an ongoing process before you, as the U.S. President, as the leader of the free world, meet and shake hands with this leader of North Korea who is perceived to be oppressing brutally his own people?
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"The same folks who are calling out and opposing the symbols of racism, I just hope that this is a moment where people are willing to have real conversations and work to break down some of these other systemic barriers that are oppressing communities of color," said Tram Nguyen, an executive director of New Virginia Majority, a liberal political organization.
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Read more:Muslims in China's most oppressed, closed-off region are turning to China's version of Gen Z favorite TikTok to communicate with the worldChina is reportedly sending men to sleep in the same beds as Uighur Muslim women while their husbands are in prison campsThis map shows a trillion-dollar reason why China is oppressing more than a million MuslimsThe last major opponent of China's Muslim oppression has retreated into silence.
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Read more:China tells Uighur Muslims they are abducting their families so they can cleanse their brains like they have a disease, leaked documents showPeople in China are bypassing its internet firewall to read explosive leaked files about Uighur oppression, and saluting an official who disobeyed Xi JinpingMaps show 500 suspected &aposre-education&apos camps and prisons where China is locking up and torturing its Muslim minorityThis map shows a trillion-dollar reason why China is oppressing more than a million Muslims
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