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I'm constantly fighting back against rampant sexism, racism, homophobia, agism, classism, and transphobia, and I show the links from the oppressor's words, or actions, to the offense.
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And though their exuberance would of course still shine through, it was clouded by years under the oppressor's boot.
Josh Schrei: The Ladakh Cloudburst: An Eyewitness Account 2010
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I enjoyed your take on the "oppressor's calendar."
Valerie Tarico: Is it OK to Celebrate Christmas, Even If You're Not a Christian? 2009
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An oppressor's security forces are usually the most girded of the pillars of support, which are the institutions or groups who help the oppressor maintain the system of injustice.
Cynthia Boaz: The Iranian Crackdown: Who's Really Afraid of Whom? 2009
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I say this because its the oppressor's anti-gay religious POVs that have become encoded into civil law.
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We paid little mind to the rational fact that our desperation to disprove the oppressor's viewpoint only demonstrated our enslavement to it.
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Racial segregation collapsed when the aggrieved victims dramatized the moral contradictions of their oppressor's doctrine.
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To practice "racial" identity politics, the subaltern must accept the oppressor's category of "race" as a given.
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To practice "racial" identity politics, the subaltern must accept the oppressor's category of "race" as a given.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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Finally last Tuesday in first period English class at E.O. Green Junior High School in the Los Angeles suburb of Oxnard, an oppressor's loathing took the upper hand.
Tom Gregory: Death at the Beach: What Did America Learn in School Last Tuesday? 2008
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