Word: oppression
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...land in which Ms. Adams dwells, social norms oppress children who would otherwise become vegetarians. In pursuit of elusive facts to back up this, uh, assertion, she alleges a conspiracy of the American Dairy Council in public schools. She gives further evidence, her voice tinged with horror, of her child being coerced to color in a picture of a turkey in a grade school worksheet about the first Thanksgiving...
...land in which Ms. Adams dwells, social norms oppress children who would otherwise become vegetarians. In pursuit of elusive facts to back up this, uh, assertion, she alleges a conspiracy of the American Dairy Council in public schools. She gives further evidence, her voice tinged with horror, of her child being coerced to color in a picture of a turkey in a grade school worksheet about the first Thanksgiving...
...asyir Accused of being head of JI, on trial in Jakarta for treason and other charges not related to Bali Trial Status: Continuing Most interesting moment: July 15, when the 63-year-old cleric lectured the judges that all Muslims are obliged by their religion to fight "infidels" who oppress Islam...
...visibility that fails to think politically—or, more precisely, to think at all: these decontextualized performances of politics serve only to make their performers feel good about themselves. It is a gay politics that seeks acceptance from those structures (of race, of class, of gender) that oppress us; it fails utterly to change or even challenge them...
...invert the old proverb, what comes down must go up. More than a week since the liberation of Baghdad, the military preeminence of the Anglo-American coalition in Iraq seems assured. Saddam Hussein’s regime has fallen and will never again oppress the Iraqi people. The real challenge for America, however, is not the toppling of a tinpot director—a military triumph for the mightiest army the world has ever seen was never in doubt—but the forging of a stable country in the wake of Saddam’s departure...