From past sufferings to a continuum of racialized and gendered oppression, they are victims of similar systems of unjust patriarchy, dogmas, policies, laws, and actions.
As Laurie Penny recently wrote, for The Baffler, the risk of promoting individual self-care as a solution to existential anxiety or oppression is that victims will become isolated in a futile struggle to solve their own problems rather than to collectively change the systems causing them harm.
And, if you consider him a victim of oppression, should the work's quality even matter?
Born in Lviv, sometimes called the capital of the western, Europe-oriented Ukraine, Mr. Tyagnibok said he was raised to hate Communists, in part because his paternal grandfather was a victim of oppression under Stalin.
"This is a courageous man who has been the victim of oppression and, frankly, I think it's incumbent upon every American to assist someone like him," he said.
[Dilma Rousseff is] A woman who was the victim of oppression, was imprisoned for three and a half years, who was barbarously tortured, who doesn't today hold the slightest trace of resentment.I am certain that she will respect the principles of democracy as if they were sacred, because she knows that it is because of democracy that I became president and that she is going to be president.
But not just if you're black, but also if you're poor or if you are the victim of oppression, violence, murders, systemic destruction.
They depict Muslims as victims of oppression.
Oppression sometimes benefits its victims more than its perpetrators.
If we cannot welcome victims of oppression then we fail as part of the human community.
Some saw themselves as victims of oppression, others as sons of dispossessed families.
