Perhaps most grotesque in this postmodern calculus of political repression is the moral blindness displayed towards the record of colonialism.
The best way to tame the Islamists, as Turkey's experience shows, is to deny them the moral high ground to which repression elevates them, and condemn them instead to the responsibilities and compromises of day-to-day government.The second argument is that Egypt is too complex for the West to influence.
He brought me -- like many others -- with him on a political journey from the initial moral disgust at the brutal repression of the Jim Crow culture of the South to an understanding of the way the entire country's elite used race antagonism to keep the working class divided.
Both narratively and visually, 'Brokeback Mountain' is a tragedy about the specifically gay phenomenon of the 'closet' — about the disastrous emotional and moral consequences of erotic self-repression and of the social intolerance that first causes and then exacerbates it.
Students learned of an austere man who used physical repression to enforce morals and was intolerant in matters of theology, as when a fellow theologian, Michael Servetus, denied the Trinity and Calvin had him burned at the stake.
"The moral issues at stake here — the repression of women, the inability of men and women to negotiate their own love — is not only an Islamic story, but a majority of humanity are still struggling with these issues.
None of them – least of all the sinister Stasi remand prison turned museum at Hohenschönhausen – tries to argue for a moral equivalence between the agents of repression and their victims.
However the committee said that the Nato action was justified on moral grounds because of Mr Milosevic's repression of the Kosovan Albanians.
Each novel brings us back to that same dark room: to the stuffed furniture of another age, the polite repression of the protagonist, the moral codes of yesteryear.
"Red Dust" remains the most vivid description of the Chinese people freshly liberated from Maoism, picking their way through a transformed moral landscape in which extreme poverty and repression coexist with alluring new possibilities of self-invention.
