Great topic. It undergirds the fabricated, or highly exaggerated, pretexts of nearly the entire stated leftist globalist agenda. I am grateful to see that more and more people in minority groups are awakening to the fact that they have been relentlessly used for decades by the left through this victimhood ploy, and that it has kept them from rising.
I think one would be hard-pressed to find a conservative member of a minority group who feels oppressed by those of another skin color or demographic.
I do like and agree with your philosophy about victimhood. However, I am not sure most people understand the concept and so are deeply entrenched in it with their heads in the sand. That way why bother?
Beyond political appropriation (who benefits from the crime? ...), I think that this identity drift is particularly damaging for those who succumb to it. Instead of shining through their personal merits and qualities, they lock themselves into a status that cannot evolve. You can be born poor and become rich, but what can you become from being a victim?
Of course inequalities are still very present; but I quite like the sentence: "don't say 'look what has been done to me', say to yourself 'what am I going to do with what has been done to me ?' "
Great topic. It undergirds the fabricated, or highly exaggerated, pretexts of nearly the entire stated leftist globalist agenda. I am grateful to see that more and more people in minority groups are awakening to the fact that they have been relentlessly used for decades by the left through this victimhood ploy, and that it has kept them from rising.
I think one would be hard-pressed to find a conservative member of a minority group who feels oppressed by those of another skin color or demographic.
It’s kind of a stealth thing. Make it appear that it’s all organic.
Very true...
Societies' subgroups complete in the Leftist Victimhood Sweepstakes. Your prize: Unaccountability.
Better than working for a living.
I do like and agree with your philosophy about victimhood. However, I am not sure most people understand the concept and so are deeply entrenched in it with their heads in the sand. That way why bother?
Beyond political appropriation (who benefits from the crime? ...), I think that this identity drift is particularly damaging for those who succumb to it. Instead of shining through their personal merits and qualities, they lock themselves into a status that cannot evolve. You can be born poor and become rich, but what can you become from being a victim?
Of course inequalities are still very present; but I quite like the sentence: "don't say 'look what has been done to me', say to yourself 'what am I going to do with what has been done to me ?' "
Everyone has to learn it for themselves, but for some their whole identity is wrapped up in their victim status. A dead end.
Yes, really a dead end. And which does not pull humanity upwards...