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oppressor

noun as in tyrant

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I believed that his election would erase racism and force oppressors to see the errors of their ways.

From Salon

Coates insists that he wants to tell the story of the victims — the oppressed Palestinians — not of their Israeli oppressors.

Nothing new about a Trump family member inventing phantom oppressors to claim victim status.

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The term emerged as a way of critiquing those who “collaborated with our oppressors”, he said.

From BBC

Evidence of enjoyment of life directly rebuts the central proposition of the oppressor – namely, that the oppressed is inferior.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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