Word: oppressive
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...economy to a halt for a day of lament. There were flags burned and snowballs thrown, much jostling, some pepper spray. The satirical Billionaires for Bush auctioned off Social Security and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge before moving on to their Re-Coronation Ball (its code: "Dress to oppress"). The spirit of the First Amendment floated down Pennsylvania Avenue, between protesters chanting "Racist, sexist, anti-gay. Bush and Cheney, go away" and their opponents answering "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" Some signs declared GOD BLESS THE RED, painted over a map of the country, while others cried DRAFT THE TWINS and HOLD SOMEBODY...
...going to have to drop out of Harvard because he’s going to oppress all the minorities,” Cleveland jokes...
...same destiny, and as such they need to unite and act collectively,” he said. “It is [the] right of the African Union (AU) to intervene when there are massacres, genocides and crimes against humanity. No African country can hide behind sovereignty to oppress...
Animal rights isn’t the first cause to encounter knee-jerk resistance. For example, while it is clearly wrong to oppress women—and always has been wrong—this has only recently become the consensus. In response to Mary Wollstonecraft’s groundbreaking A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, eighteenth-century philosopher Thomas Taylor published the dismissive satire A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes, sneering that the arguments for women’s rights were also applicable to animals and that this amounted to a reductio ad absurdum of Wollstonecraft?...
Only a short while ago, those in power in our society continued to oppress others who had been deemed unworthy of equal rights, such as slaves, women, and homosexuals, against whom the fight continues. I am inspired that society’s sphere of moral consideration is continually expanding. I acknowledge and applaud that PETA has assumed the role of society’s “watchdog” with respect to our treatment of animals...