Word: oppressor
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...speech has come a demand for freedom from speech, if that speech is deemed offensive by any victim group. And in place of the assumption that America represents the highest aspirations of mankind is a conviction that the U.S. was, and to a considerable degree still is, an oppressor nation, its history a chronicle of injustice and deceit. Some conservative critics point to p.c. and multicultural rhetoric as proof that the American campus is the last bastion of Marxism. Much p.c. analysis is indeed tinged with scorn for capitalism and its correlative, the proverbial marketplace of ideas. But the movement...
...oppressor was Charles Hardy, president of the company. He would ask Harris and other female employees to retrieve coins from his front pants pocket. He once suggested that Harris accompany him to the local Holiday Inn to negotiate her raise. He also regularly responded to her with remarks like "You're a woman; what do you know?" and called her "a dumb-ass woman." Said Harris: "It got to the point that I didn't have any choice but to confront him. I had had enough." When he failed to change, she quit. "I felt so hopeless," she said...
Aunt Tam's struggle with her would-be oppressor in Paradise of the Blind epitomizes the endurance of victims in modern Vietnam and their determination to survive with dignity. More a survival novel than a war novel, Paradise, in fact, completely passes over the years of American intervention in Vietnam. While some of author Duong Thu Huong's other works have shown war from the front lines--where she has had personal experience--this novel depicts the war at home and within, north...
...Thomes's cruel oppressor, Blukoff (Billy Hulkower) who has to utter some of Aron's most banal lines: "Are you the dumbest woman in the world? Do you like being hurt? Sure you do...that's how dumb...
...Mass demonstrations also occurred in Bolivia and Chile. In Buenos Aires some native people staged a three-day hunger strike that ended on Columbus Day in front of the Casa Rosada, the Argentine presidential palace. And in Managua, Nicaragua, a poster branded Columbus A BIG THIEF, MURDERER, RACIST, TORTURER, OPPRESSOR OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND INSTIGATOR...