By disenfranchising already cynical young voters with robocalls, a hellishly long and pointless campaign, or with good old-fashioned voter suppression tactics, the Conservatives can pretend that segment of the population just doesn't exist.
As the rate of incarceration remains at historically high rates, the social response has worked to further disenfranchise already vulnerable populations.
To those Africans, already disenfranchised on their own soil, Afrikaans was the "language of the oppressor".
Furthermore, many critics who oppose the term believe the "outsider" distinction can ghettoize artists who are already disenfranchised enough.
The act of arrest in and of itself damages lives, breaks families apart, and fractures already disenfranchised communities.
This is a particularly sensitive point in regard to those, like LGBT youth, who are already disenfranchised.
These are communities that I am a part of, communities that I am supportive of, and communities that were already disenfranchised before this election reinforced our oppression.
In my researching my book, My Brother, My Enemy from Sahelian Africa through the Holy Land, South Asia and onto Indonesia, I discovered that it is the hyperbolic language in the West -- the use of such absurd phrases as "Islamo-facism" -- that helps stir the passions of young Muslims, many of them already disenfranchised by their own governments.
"What this image says to those already feeling disenfranchised in a world that often portrays them as the 'other' is powerful stuff".
It's hard to know exactly how many people have already been disenfranchised by voting laws across the country.
