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Today's Victim Mentality

What's the cause? How do we fix it?

by Anonymousreply 11August 30, 2018 9:42 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 1August 30, 2018 8:05 AM

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’."

by Anonymousreply 2August 30, 2018 8:07 AM

R2 summed up completely

by Anonymousreply 3August 30, 2018 8:09 AM

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.

by Anonymousreply 4August 30, 2018 8:11 AM

R4 = Incest Survivor. Tell Mom!

by Anonymousreply 5August 30, 2018 8:15 AM

OP, does this apply to DL posters?

by Anonymousreply 6August 30, 2018 8:16 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 7August 30, 2018 8:37 AM

There IS no victim mentality today.

Stop playing the victim, OP.

by Anonymousreply 8August 30, 2018 8:46 AM

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

It only occurs in wealthy capitalist countries.

by Anonymousreply 9August 30, 2018 8:56 AM

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.

by Anonymousreply 10August 30, 2018 9:05 AM

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.

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