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“And the oppressed sense their moral superiority vindicated against an evil.”

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It will be a long time before the U.S. can demand liberty for oppressed nations and be taken seriously.

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In 2022, the Southern Poverty Law Center considered these groups to be extremist, “constantly painting themselves as an oppressed class, while vilifying those discriminated against,” it said.

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They believe they are entitled to control public opinion, or they are being oppressed.

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But the turbulent charge of Leroy’s voice and body language serves another purpose: keeping the character’s history as an oppressed Black man cruelly cut off from his soulmate ever in sight.

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