Dominance

There are two ways

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There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That’s essentially the way we took California from Mexico and… Texas as well. But what’s going on now may end up being a kind of recolonization of the Southwest, because the other way you can regain territory is by … Read more

I believe that the

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I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between life and death; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality and illusions; between objectivity and intolerance; between brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission. Erich Fromm

Often men\\’s impulses to

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Often men’s impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of rejection, humiliation, and impotence: as many men see it, they need women sexually more than women need them, an intolerable balance of power. Ellen Willis

The sense of Islam

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The sense of Islam as a threatening Other – with Muslims depicted as fanatical, violent, lustful, irrational – develops during the colonial period in what I called Orientalism. The study of the Other has a lot to do with the control and dominance of Europe and the West generally in the Islamic world. And it … Read more

The United States has

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The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets – an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages. Fredric Jameson