Word: victimhood
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Once again, gay activists who claim to speak for us have gone too far. Every time they let the culture of victimhood infect and pervade their worldview, they lose a little credibility. When the real fights come along, when latter day Anita Bryants seek to impose real harm on gay men and women, gay rights activists will be impotent to act. No one will trust them, or care to listen to what they have...
Small wonder, then, that the students have started to mimic the left's rhetoric of victimhood. A prominent student conservative--Charles Mitchell of Pennsylvania's Bucknell University--urged conference attendees to return to their campuses and create "safe zones" for conservatives, who are, he said, "constantly under attack." Antifeminist Christina Hoff Sommers, author of The War Against Boys, darkly warned that Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues--a collection of sketches about women's sexual experiences that was performed on more than 600 campuses last year--has inspired "an army" of campus feminists whom she called "very elitist." Sommers told...
...ITES ALWAYS SEE THEMSELVES AS THE victims," Khalilzad says as his convoy pulls up to the U.S. embassy, temporarily housed in what used to be Saddam Hussein's main palace. But Sunnis too are adept at the politics of victimhood. Later in the day, the ambassador holds a closed-door meeting in his small office with two representatives of the Sunni parties. One of them, Iyad al-Samarrai, then told TIME they asked Khalilzad to have U.S. forces stop the killing of Sunnis by Shi'ite death squads...
...deviant fantasies lead us to a troubling conclusion about Republican activists at Harvard, if W is representative, as I think he is. This bunch has developed an entire narrative of victimhood, of severe oppression at the hands of some tyrannical liberal hegemony. They, and they alone, are those who courageously stand defiant in the face of the progressive bulldozer. And so they must fight mercilessly for what they see is right, even if it they end up doing it with the intellectual rigor of a napkin...
...MOTTO: "Those who have successfully overcome victimhood force themselves in directions they know are healthy, in spite of tremendous doubts and fears that pull them back...