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Notwithstanding the oppressed worldviews of many animistic indigenous cultures, a steadfast belief in human exceptionalism has long hindered any meaningful consideration of interspecies democracy.
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Sam Firman, Longreads, 11 July 2024
Get Citation Request Reprint Permissions Play Download Article After more than 20 years of costly military adventures, the United States has failed to root out extremism or bring liberal democracy to the oppressed.
—Jonathan B. Petkun, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
My ire has also targeted anti-Zionists, who reduce the complex morality of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into a simplistic narrative of the oppressed against their oppressors.
—Ben Krull, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2024
In their view, the oppressed Shiite conscripts who had happily gone home during the invasion were not going to rally to the summons of a bunch of Sunni senior officers tied to the ancien régime.
—Garrett M. Graff, Foreign Affairs, 5 May 2023
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Sam Firman, Longreads, 11 July 2024
Get Citation Request Reprint Permissions Play Download Article After more than 20 years of costly military adventures, the United States has failed to root out extremism or bring liberal democracy to the oppressed.
—Jonathan B. Petkun, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
My ire has also targeted anti-Zionists, who reduce the complex morality of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into a simplistic narrative of the oppressed against their oppressors.
—Ben Krull, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2024
In their view, the oppressed Shiite conscripts who had happily gone home during the invasion were not going to rally to the summons of a bunch of Sunni senior officers tied to the ancien régime.
—Garrett M. Graff, Foreign Affairs, 5 May 2023
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“The oppressed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20oppressed. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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