Word: oppressor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Militant gays seek power and protection by outing "closet" homosexuals; Afrocentrists, in extreme cases, speak of standard English as the "oppressor's language" advocating "culturally relevant curricula" in which the "home and community dialects" are recognized; Jewish extremists denounce the Christmas tree as a symbol of oppression and insensitivity. Segregated into these enclaves, the victimized (both real and constructed) not only contribute to a culture of separatism, but inadvertently play into the hands of those who would deny them any retribution or justice...
...times. But a reinvigorated sense of empathy, reflected in a greater degree of communal solidarity, is the only way to help those truly in need. Only then can a sense of communal solidarity regain meaning as a strengthened social contract rebuilds the ties between rich and poor, oppressor and oppressed, empowered and powerless...
...Shortly after the liberation of Kuwait and the slaughter of fleeing Iraqi troops--the end of our war, if not theirs--Bush promised the Kurds and Shiites that he would use American air power to ground Iraqi helicopters. He lied. Having told two peoples to rise up against their oppressor when it suited one set of his purposes, Bush left them to die when it suited another...
...plight of the Black underclass grows more uncontrollable every day. What's worse, the most helpless victims of ghetto crime and violence are not white or middle-class, but Black and poor. Yet rather than confront this breakdown in civilized behavior, many Black leaders continue to search for an oppressor...
...occupation has produced a culture of violence, fear and racism in Israel and has forced American Jews to abandon the central Jewish values of reason and compassion in order to defend Israel's immoral acts. Martin Luther King taught that oppression enslaves the oppressor as well as the oppressed. This has never been more clear than in the case of modern Israel and the Jewish people...