So many people in today's culture seem to embrace the victim status

healterseltzer wrote:

Don't compare the SJW victim olympics, where everything is considered a racist micro-aggression, to people with genuine concerns about civil liberties and experimental, DNA altering "vaccines".

It's okay that you have authoritarian impulses. It's not okay that you want to act on them.

Spoken like a true conservative victim

This thread triggers me.

Another Aztec wrote:

SDSU Aztec wrote:

No, we're not at a dangerous crossroads. People said similar things about hippies in the 60s but the country survived.

Most people have jobs, families and other things to worry about and this cultural struggle involves about 10% of the population.

Hippies did not advocate for intersectionality scorecards for tabulating victimhood points, for giving puberty blockers to children or for drag-queen story hours in public libraries.

I don't know anyone that does. Are all of these horrible things affecting you personally? I didn't know there was scoreboard for victimhood points and no one is giving puberty blockers to my children. Being a woke person, I would love to read a drag-queen story. Do have a link to one?

I think power in victim-hood depends on depends on the relatively new emergence of (1) easy worldwide media exposure and (2) super-governments. A lot of horrible atrocities were able to happen in the past because people didn't know about them, and if they did, there was nobody to do anything about it. Now that everyone has a phone and internet access it's easy to get your story out to people who will listen. In particular, people who are outside of whatever group you feel victimizes you. If you think the U.S. government is treating you unfairly then the Chinese and Russians would love to hear about it. If your grievances are taken seriously on the world stage then there are enough people listening who don't care about maintaining the status quo of your particular system.

This is one of the worst takes but in line with everything else on this website. Well done, OP.

Maybe it's people like you who are super defensive about the Me Too Movement pull out the small examples of harassment targeted at women to avoid a conversation about the systemic treatment of women in society & all of the very real cases of assault + harassment thrown their way.

Looking for racism? Guess we'll just ignore redlining and who was allowed to buy homes and build generational wealth in this country.

Masks? Sure, god forbid we listen to the scientific community and try to make sure we keep one another safe.

To my surprise, the original post actually mentioned items from both political sides, so that he didn't self-destruct his thesis by whining, victim-like, about how his side is a victim. Good job, original poster!

Unfortunately, I can't say that about most of the following posts.

runnerboy70 wrote:

Don't kid yourself...It's coming from the left and the media perpetuates it.

They worship victimhood....

We hear story after story of people having some tragedy or hardship in their life ad nauseam, if they don't have a sad story they talk about their cat dying or something.

Trump got elected by peddling victimhood and Fox News perpetuates it daily via talking heads like Tucker Carlson.

DarkSpeedWorks Is Annoying wrote:

This thread triggers me.

You must be a repubu

Victim hood is comfy, thats why people put it on and rarely take it off.

Including a ton of people who think they don't.

I know, right? trump whines constantly about being a victim. All the women he raped are out to get him. The terrorist thugs who attacked the Capitol are only out to get what was stolen from him. The impeachments - witch hunts. The IRS is continually auditing his tax returns and he desperately wants to release them to the public. Mexico won't pay him for the big beautiful wall. The British Open doesn't want to use his failing resort. People moan about the speeches his wife plagiarized. No collusion, no Pee Tapes.

https://www.salon.com/2020/08/30/donald-trumps-pathology-of-victimhood-its-dangerous-for-his-own-party--and-the-rest-of-us/

Pay attention MF's . For all intents and purposes you have allowed yourself to be disappeared by the government in favor of politician s ,corporations monied interests including a plethora of do-gooder brands. You can gain false reassurance that you matter through stupid identity politics, including attaching yourself to some pc brand of victimization , or you can sulk because you don't fit a pc notion, red or blue, of favored classes of individuals .

Or, you can get off your backside and learn to participate in whatever you can find that is just and real in society and affect what you feel is right in a serious but civilized manner to the best of your ability. If not that, just be kind to everybody you meet who isn't harming you physically or draining your bank account.

Following for White Grievance Thread of the Day.

I think the victimhood and Woke stuff and LGBTQ stuff is just a fad, that will be forgotten about in about 10 years, when people get back to common sense. Just a crazy phase that will soon disappear and be forgotten about except to be laughed at in the future. Most of the Immigrants coming in now from Central America, South America, Africa and Asia which includes the Mid East, reject that nonsense, If you notice all of this is in the USA and Western Europe (Not Eastern Europe) all the other places which are where the Immigrants are coming in from don't except that nonsense, The LGBTQ stuff is a crime in almost all the Muslim Countries and most of The African Countries (Except South Africa which is falling apart rapidly) We got to put God, Morals, Ethics and Principles over Money and Degeneracy and get back to being a High Trust, Low Crime Nation of respectable citizens, Was it John Quincy Adam or John Adams who said our Constitution would only work for a Moral and Religious people? We are sidetracked now and God will soon deal out retribution to those trying to normalize Evil.

You forgot that he is 'the most attacked president in history' by the media or whatever. They won't cut the poor guy a break!

Google my name.

Whiny dem victim.

runnerboy70 wrote:

Don't kid yourself...It's coming from the left and the media perpetuates it.

They worship victimhood....

We hear story after story of people having some tragedy or hardship in their life ad nauseam, if they don't have a sad story they talk about their cat dying or something.

The right is lead by the biggest victim in the history of victim hood. Anything that doesn’t go his way is “rigged”. “They worship victim hood...”. You worship history’s biggest victim. You can’t possibly be this self unaware!

Biden/Harris are doing an awful job…

Terrible.

okay Ill bite wrote:

runnerboy70 wrote:

Don't kid yourself...It's coming from the left and the media perpetuates it.

They worship victimhood....

We hear story after story of people having some tragedy or hardship in their life ad nauseam, if they don't have a sad story they talk about their cat dying or something.

The right is lead by the biggest victim in the history of victim hood. Anything that doesn’t go his way is “rigged”. “They worship victim hood...”. You worship history’s biggest victim. You can’t possibly be this self unaware!

The whole "woke movement" is coming from the left...

You cannot deny this....