The fact that a policy disproportionately harmed or disempowered one racial group, in other words, was not enough.

换句话说，一项政策不成比例地伤害或剥夺了一个种族群体的权利是不够的。

Like there are the marginalized folks who fear very understandablythat they'll be disempowered yet again.

就像有些边缘化的人非常担心他们会再次被剥夺权力一样，这是可以理解的。

In fact, it's very hard to say, " I don't eat chocolate cake, " and come across as disempowered in your body language.

事实上，很难说“我不吃巧克力蛋糕”，并且在你的肢体语言中表现得无能为力。

Asia is still in the foothills of the opportunities that activists might eventually find, if the influential actors that dominate the markets are disempowered.

如果主导市场的有影响力的参与者被剥夺权力，亚洲仍处于激进分子最终可能发现的机会的山脚下。

Due to how competitive the rental market is at the moment, we've heard that so many renters feel disempowered to do anything to reduce their bills.

由于目前租赁市场竞争激烈，我们听说很多租房者感到无力做任何事情来减少他们的账单。

If the definition of being canceledis being silenced, excluded, disempowered and disinvited from the larger conversation, then for many of us, cancel culture has defined our lives for most of history.

如果被取消的定义是被压制、被排除、被剥夺权力和被取消参与更大的对话，那么对于我们许多人来说，取消文化在历史的大部分时间里定义了我们的生活。

But as writers, as much as we love stories and words, I believe we must also be interested in silences: the things we cannot talk about easily in our societies, the marginalized, the disempowered.

但作为作家， 尽管我们热爱故事和文字，但我相信我们也必须对沉默感兴趣：在我们的社会中我们不能轻易谈论的事情， 被边缘化的人， 被剥夺权力的人。