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The girls who wish to wear the scarf in Turkey say it represents Muslim female empowerment, and they consider themselves oppressed if it's forbidden.
(Barone compares Cuba to Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, and O'Beirne calls Cuban-Americans an oppressed ethnic minority.)
All at once, the movie becomes a "conversion" melodrama--the kind in which an amoral, Bogartish protagonist is unable to ignore injustice and so throws in his lot with the oppressed.
, the Family Research Council's Gary Bauer) accuse secular human-rights organizations of class bias (the seculars back Tibetan Buddhists but not Christians oppressed by China).
But in Katz's world, cybernauts are oppressed daily by "The Mediaphobes," the old-media-worshipping, Judeo-Christian-ethics-preaching, backward-facing "windbags and pious souls who presume to know what is moral for you and your family."