Mrs. Clinton said it was important that "everybody take seriously any disappearance, any violence against activists, any oppression of civil society, any intimidation of the press".
I know men and women who don't accept any oppression of women.
At the heart of any theory about oppression, there exists the idea of the oppressor being oppressed as well; we just often do the job for them.
It's a truism that the most openly vicious practitioners of any brand of oppression tend not to be the people at the very top level of privilege, but those in the second-to-last row, desperate for someone at the very bottom that they can feel better than.
Even Machiavelli, who counseled princes seizing new territory to commit all their crimes at once because human beings have such short memories, warned that people will accept pretty much any kind of oppression unless "you prey on the possessions or the women of your subjects".
If "traditional" marriage subjugates women, then like any form of oppression, the logical approach would be to end it.
Rather than cementing government control, any sense of oppression brought more people out into the streets, she added, so authoritative policies were doomed to fail.
Harroun protested to Kolessar that Ben Zion and Tepper had twisted his words "out of context": he was "not a radical Islamist" and was "ideologically opposed to any form of oppression," whether those oppressors were loyal to Assad or to Al Qaeda.
Was there any kind of oppression at the frat house?
