By concentrating all evil in the oppressors, it absolves the victims from examining their own failings. |
The theoretical perspectives cited in the book are primarily about how oppressed groups have resisted their oppressors. |
Those groups who overachieve are seen in this theory as oppressors who must be curbed, if not eliminated. |
They are the problem in Mindanao because they have always been the aggressors, oppressors and colonizers, the inheritors of piratic colonialism. |
It isn't the power of the oppressors that interventionists have to worry about, but the amorphousness of the oppression. |
Dualism is a tool of oppressors, fundamentalists and the morally righteous. |