Word: oppressor
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...exclude anyone from systems of privilege, and we must explore the intersections of oppressions if we are to realize a true social justice agenda. Admittedly, this form of living loudly is much more difficult than the first: it's a lot easier to band together against an ostensibly white oppressor than acknowledging the inequities within your minority group itself, but we can't ask for anything less. We all deserve the right to live and shout with our mouths wide, and our voices will only be audible when we have broken the silences open...
...assume these views point self-righteous fingers at groups such as the Naked Party, the Smash the Blood Sucking Oppressor Party and the party without a name. These three groups are the only ones who challenged the mainstream parties in last year's elections. Where are all of these "frivolous parties," my dear senators? Yes, the Naked Party was extreme. They were naked. But, Naked had several valid proposals including telephone voting and pay cuts for SG officers. The nameless party sought improvements in on-campus cable television programming and activities for on-campus students...
...ironic that the Cuban-exile community--particularly the fervent anti-Castro organizations--behaves very much like the oppressor it so reviles. It's sad to live in a community where constitutional rights, such as freedom of speech, are selectively respected. And this is the exile community that helps keep Castro's regime afloat by sending $800 million a year in money and goods to relatives on the island. ALEX DIAZ-GRANADOS Miami...
...Yeah, but, hey, that's life," she shrugs. "There is no oppressor. It's just luck, bad f__ing luck...
...simple and safe to curtail a group's rights if that group is reduced to a bunch of flighty deviants who abide by a parallel and distinct version of morality. Such tactics have been used for centuries, to a far more extreme degree by slave-owners and Nazis. Both oppressor groups justified their persecution and slaughtering by reducing their respective objects of hatred to the sub-human...