repression

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• Researchers say the movement began coalescing online in 2019 as people — mostly young men — angry with what they perceived to be increasing government repression, found each other on Facebook groups and in private chats.

• American parents are not going to accept indoctrination in our schools, cancel culture at work, or the repression of traditional faith, culture and values in the public square.

• Autocratic regimes are far more likely to use these instruments for repression, but democracies sometimes use them to curb civil rights too.

• He has relied on a mixture of repression and elite loyalty, but also, to an extent, popular support.

• Now, the fear is palpable—citizens are comparing the air of repression to the cultural revolution, and professors are being fired from universities for advocating democracy.

• Hand to God Sexual repression has been around for centuries, courtesy of all our favorite religions.

• Depressing is really what Cuba has become—repression, bureaucracy, and crippling poverty.

• One road leads to freedom, sharing, and equality; the other to endless spying, a hierarchical structure, and repression.

• Dovlatov hated Soviet oppression and battled repression subtly, by not condescending to notice it, and keeping things light.

• If the U.S. does nothing, the Arab world will continue its slide into sectarian bigotry, political repression, and madness.