Sentences with phrase «oppressor group»

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• Oversimplified «group think» that views life as a struggle between oppressed victim groups and their oppressors.

Managers and workers, men and women, straights and gays, whites and nonwhites, «normal» people and «deviants»: all the oppressors need a means of understanding emotionally the grievances of the oppressed, and the oppressed groups can benefit, themselves, from a means of understanding the points of view of their oppressors.

A more ancient view, still apparent at many points in the Old Testament, had been that righteousness was rewarded by prosperity and long life in this world, and misfortune was a punishment for sin; but as Israel suffered more and more adversity, and the most faithful individuals and groups were the most oppressed and afflicted, it came to be felt that the humble, the meek, the devout, the poor were the righteous people of God, and the mighty and prosperous were the proud, wicked oppressors.

... sensitivity to injustice and suffering often becomes a new dualism that categorizes human beings according to membership in the group of the oppressed or the oppressor...

Often the oppressors believe they are granted some sort of license to hate and attack entire groups of people.

If a Jew, with his pent - up rage against the oppressor, should become intoxicated and vent his repressed feeling, the entire Jewish group might suffer.

His sense of humanity's sinfulness kept him from the dangerous assumption that any group — whether of the oppressors or the oppressed — had a monopoly on either virtue or wickedness.

Social Gospellers were members of the oppressing group who sympathized with the oppressed and wanted to extend to them the benefits of the oppressor's society.

Such behavior is a classic feature of oppressed groups who turn on each other instead of concentrating on fighting their oppressors.

While far - left groups had little support in the 1990s, and many basically perceived themselves as enemies and oppressors of the average population, the trend towards «harsh» capitalism, with lowering wages, dismantling of social security and welfare cuts led to a «left renaissance» in the mid-2000s.

In Michoacán, in response to his neighbors being gunned down and beheaded — an atrocity he photographed with his camera as proof of his enemies» barbarism — Dr. José Mireles sought to fight back against his community's oppressors by creating the Autodefensas, a vigilante group that took up arms against the cartels.

Chris Evans and an all - star cast do a tremendous job telling the dystopian tale about a group of poor passengers on board a train during the second Ice Age that revolt against their wealthy oppressors.

Essentially these issues bring to bear a focus on the binary between oppressed / oppressor and, implicitly, the role and impact that an apathetic or uncritical person from the dominant group can have on an issue.