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Oppression
Oppression Op*pres"sion, n. [F., fr. L. oppressio.]
1. The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed.
2. That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty;
severity; tyranny. ``The multitude of oppressions.' --Job
xxxv. 9.
3. A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind;
depression; dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of
spirits; an oppression of the lungs.
There gentlee Sleep First found me, and with soft
oppression seized My drowsed sense. --Milton.
4. Ravishment; rape. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Meaning of Oppression from wikipedia
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Oppression is
malicious or
unjust treatment of, or
exercise of
power over, a
group of individuals,
often in the form of
governmental authority. Oppression...
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Liberation by
Oppression: A
Comparative Study of
Slavery and
Psychiatry is a 2002
critique of
psychiatry by the
psychiatrist Thomas Szasz.
Szasz compares...
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Shareholder oppression occurs when the
majority shareholders in a
corporation take
action that
unfairly prejudices the minority. It most
commonly occurs...
- then male-dominated
black liberation movement,
citing the "interlocking
oppressions" of racism, ****ism and heteronormativity. It
broadens the
scope of the...
- In
corporate law in
Commonwealth countries, an
oppression remedy is a
statutory right available to
oppressed shareholders. It
empowers the shareholders...
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Oppression Olympics is a
pejorative term for a type of
victim mentality that
views marginalization as a
competition to
determine the
relative weight of...
- In
social justice theory,
internalized oppression is the
resignation by
members of an
oppressed group to the
methods of an
oppressing group and
their incorporation...
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Triple oppression, also
called double jeopardy, Jane Crow, or
triple exploitation, is a
theory developed by
black socialists in the
United States, such...
- OCLC 779876753. …the
histories of genocide, slavery, and
exclusion and
oppression of
immigrants that seep into our
daily lives of segregation,
often as...
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Algorithms of
Oppression: How
Search Engines Reinforce Racism is a 2018 book by
Safiya Umoja Noble in the
fields of
information science,
machine learning...
