Word: oppression
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Similarly, participation in the "PC hegemony" requires almost nothing. A member of the "PC hegemony" need only show the mildest advocacy of a liberal cause, use a gender-neutral term, recycle white paper or enroll in a course like "African-American Women Writers" to oppress the anti-PC forces...
According to Lekgoro, the South African government could not flourish or continue to oppress its people without the economic power derived from various international companies...
...office tower is a full block deep and 60 stories tall, but it is marvelously narrow -- a mere 50 ft. wide. New buildings of this height usually contain two or three times as much square footage; no matter how interesting or tarted up, such behemoths almost inevitably darken and oppress their bit of the city. This slender, elegant slab is like a dancer among thugs...
...Jewish nation is not holy in the sense that it has divine sanction to oppress whomever gets in the way Old Testament calls the Jews holy in the sense that they have a responsibility to a more rigorous moral code. Ethical treatment is not limited to "members of the tribe...
...book of Exodus not Joshua or Samuel, That the Jews make their covenant with God and receive the divine laws, and it is in Exodus that God tells the Jews, "You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt" (22:21) Isaiah urges us to "learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression" (1:17), and the 82nd Psalm echoes the religious responsibility to "Give justice to the weak...maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute...