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Gender oppression is a form of social oppression, which occurs due to belonging or seeming to belong to a specific gender. [32] Historically, gender oppression occurred through actual legal domination and subordination of men over women.
There is no generally agreed legal definition of the right. Based on Tony Honoré , Murphy suggests that the "'right to resist' is the right, given certain conditions, to take action intended to effect social, political or economic change, including in some instances a right to commit acts that would ordinarily be unlawful". [ 27 ]
In some states, "repression" can be an official term used in legislation or the names of government institutions. The Soviet Union had a legal policy of repression of political opposition defined in its penal code and Cuba under Fulgencio Batista had a secret police agency officially named the Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities.
Abolitionist Lysander Spooner, commenting on bills of rights, stated that the object of all bills of rights is to assert the rights of individuals against the government and that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms was in support of the right to resist government oppression, as the only security against the tyranny of government ...
That is not the definition of oppression.” ... If the Dismantle DEI Act of 2024 became law, then it would effectively close all federal DEI offices and eliminate federal DEI programs ...
There is oppression against the social body when a single one of its members is oppressed. There is oppression against every member when the social body is oppressed. When the government violates the rights of the people, insurrection is for the people, and for every portion thereof, the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of ...
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) blasted Republicans who said diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts were oppressing white Americans. During a markup of Rep. Michael Cloud’s (R-Texas ...
“There has been no oppression for the white man in this country,” said the Texas congresswoman during a House Oversight […] Jasmine Crockett rebukes Republicans on so-called white ...