Today's Victim Mentality

Genocide. Give ‘em something to be a REAL victim about!

Victims are fashionable today.

"The clearest expression of the privileged status awarded to victims today is the widely held view that we have a responsibility to believe what they say. The ‘right to be believed’ is based on the notion that those who are emotionally vulnerable need to have their suffering ‘affirmed’ and ‘validated’."

R2 summed up completely

Bullshit. That refers to women and children sex abuse victims, and it has nothing to do with any such "notion". It's because until recently their reports were automatically denied and they were called liars. You are delusional or being deliberately an asshole.

R4 = Incest Survivor. Tell Mom!

OP, does this apply to DL posters?

Following up on what R2 wrote, is this mainly something we see in the U.S. or is this a global phenomenon?

There IS no victim mentality today.

Stop playing the victim, OP.

Victimhood is now fashionable in the US, UK, Europe and Australia.

It only occurs in wealthy capitalist countries.

In my corner of the world (academia, and specifically, the humanities), this is very much a thing. However, it's not couched in the language of "victimhood," but rather, "oppression" or "marginalization." Being oppressed -- or, more accurately, being from a group that is oppressed -- is a form of social capital around here. And a powerful one at that.

Bertrand Russell recognised the so-calloed 'Superior Virtue of the Oppressed' back in 51.

The academic in Isherwood's 'A Single Man' warns against Virtue-Signalling.