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I disagree that the only form of oppression is exhaustive, or that this is even particularly possible if there are independent observers. The Greeks had loads of independent observers because there was a different state every few kilometers and freedom of movement between them - more concerning is censorship by later scribes.
If erasure is oppression (and its not always) then the easy way to achieve this is silence, and manipulation. Especially manipulation of incentive structures: "Repeat after me or the best work you'll get is flipping burgers off I-79." It is this restriction of access to power, and control of information which is most damning currently. As an aside neo-Nazis and pedophiles are often used by power when it serves their interests, timely examples are Azov or Epstein.
I think I now have a new perspective on the issue of my original post, and really that was just a temporary lapse in thinking.