oppressed.

Undistinguished students related to a university's alumni (so-called legacies) are granted group preference not on the basis of anything they have accomplished but simply because they (and their connections) are deemed to have value -- more value, at any rate, some assume, than students whose only apparent contribution is that their group was once "oppressed."

The Myth Of Meritocracy 2008

Many of the women I'd met at Yale Law School had come from the most privileged of circumstances, yet they often referred to themselves as "oppressed."

Archive 2007-10-01 Ann Althouse 2007

Clarence Thomas on middle-class white women who think they're "oppressed."

Archive 2007-10-01 Ann Althouse 2007

A slave-holder, blessed be God, is not a synonyme of 'oppressor;' nor are the slaves as a matter of course 'oppressed.'

The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) Nehemiah Adams 1842

It seems many marginalized voices have forgotten their history and now side with those actively intent on keeping them either on the sidelines or in some form "oppressed."

Integral Options Cafe 2010

Schoenborn testified that in the 15 years he and Clarke were together he sometimes feared she was being "oppressed."

CTV News RSS Feed 2009

"You are the recognized leader of the masses, the idol of all the poor and of the so-called oppressed.

Life in a Thousand Worlds William Shuler Harris