Word: victimhood
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...Moreover, it is unseemly, even pathetic, for the would-be leaders of a great power to pine for the pity gleaned on the day America lay bleeding and wounded. This is to carry into foreign policy a pathology of our domestic politics - the glorification of victimhood and the lust for its privileges, such as they are. It is not surprising that having set up at home a spoils system that encourages every ethnic group to claim even greater victimization than the next, the Democrats should lament the fact that we did not seize and institutionalize our collective victimhood of Sept...
...battle ended, and with only $9,000 from Swedish television, Hassan began 28 days of filming in the camp. What he learned was not about heroism, but self-respect. "Heroism never changed anything," he says. "People in Jenin resisted, and it enabled them to overcome the celebration of victimhood that's common on both sides." Egteyah isn't the first documentary about Jenin - in the Middle East, a battle so mythic was bound to produce its own sub-genre. But it's the first to examine both sides of the fight without propaganda. Hassan found something else in the camp...
...those groups, he believes, is precisely the reason why Der Brand had to be written. "These people's monopoly on the subjects of expulsion, rape and the bombing war has to be broken by democratic and neutral historians who take a balanced view," he argues. The question of German victimhood has been much-discussed all year. This past spring, Nobel prizewinning novelist Günter Grass published Im Krebsgang (Crab Walk), a novella about the millions who perished on the eastern front and in particular the 1945 sinking in the Baltic Sea of the Wilhelm Gustloff, when as many...
There is an eerie effortlessness to the way in which fights picked by scriptural revisionists hundreds of years ago feed today's psychology of mutual victimhood. The Jewish Theological Seminary's Magid describes a 1st century tradition in which Ishmael is a bully and Isaac "becomes the persecuted younger brother." That belief has persisted. "The Muslims are very aggressive, like Ishmael," an Israeli settler tells Feiler. "And the Jews are very passive, like Isaac, who nearly allows himself to be killed without talking back. That's why they are killing us, because we don't fight back." Arafat's religious...
...rise of lawsuits against doctors, corporations and now Harvard—just about anyone with good insurance—threatens to create a culture of victimhood in this country, driven by lawyers who know how to game the system to collect their 40 percent. As is chronicled on websites like Overlawyered.com, the range of cases is breathtaking. Congress is perennially debating tort reform to stop lawsuits like these, but there is little indication that anything will happen soon, with the financial committees of Congress preoccupied with accounting reform. Meanwhile, lawsuits continue to drag down the American economy from all directions...