He can use the whole "it is a subjugation of women" language as much as he wants, but do we really think that Sarkozy is formulating policy to fight for the rights of Muslim women?
Until black Americans repudiate the notion, promulgated by rap, that crime, violence, foul language and subjugation of women are legitimate manifestations of black "culture," Mr. Tignor's criticism of Al Jolson as a perpetuator of hateful stereotypes will ring hollow.
It is mind-boggling to me that Brzezinski and everyone else on the set of "Morning Joe" not only gave Charen a platform to peddle her dangerous ideas about women needing to embrace marriage and modesty and the traditional family ― coded (or not-so-coded) language for subjugation and submissiveness to men ― but also that they seemed to praise her for it.
She finds plenty of evidence of both racial subjugation and also a reaffirming language of sorts in African-American women's culinary talents, allowing their stories to emerge despite any prevailing white propaganda.
Those fighting forms of oppression have pointed to the use of language as part of their subjugation, from words that have specific oppressive implications to behaviour like "mansplaining" that affect the power dynamic of conversations.
What he wants to address here is the interaction between blacks and whites, and the commonplace language of power and subjugation.
The language here invoked feelings of subjugation and loss of agency.
Ngugi came to agree: he wrote four novels in English, but in the nineteen-seventies he adopted his Gikuyu name of Ngugi wa Thiong'o and vowed to write only in Gikuyu, his native language, viewing English as a means of "spiritual subjugation".
They relate in epic and forceful language the origins of the Turks, their golden age, their subjugation by the Chinese, and their liberation by Bilge Kagan.
The admirer is the market place, and the trinkets are the bounty of a commercial culture, which has deployed the language of liberation as a new and powerful tool of subjugation".
