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Adam Kinzinger: “People simply don't like to be oppressed. Some people maybe think that they enjoy being oppressed but people don't like…”

On the recordJune 27, 2017
People simply don't like to be oppressed. Some people maybe think that they enjoy being oppressed but people don't like it.
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Adam Kinzinger
Republican · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Kinzinger asserts that oppression is universally rejected.

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