Word: victimhood
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Judy Garland--again? Is there really anyone left who still gives two hoots in Oz about her sad life and squalid death? You had better believe it. Thirty-one years after America's first lady of victimhood popped her last pill, the publication of Gerald Clarke's Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland (Random House; 510 pages; $29.95) is being greeted by enough hoopla to elect a Senator, including a monthlong Turner Classic Movies marathon and the reissue on 24-karat-gold audiophile CDs of Garland's 1961 Carnegie Hall concert, which is to the Cult of Dorothy what...
...because victimhood has its rewards. Wilkomirski won the National Jewish Book Award. Menchu won the Nobel Peace Prize. Why shouldn't they make it up? They know they can get away with it. Their friends and colleagues in the academy and in radical politics will defend them...
Alan E. Wirzbicki criticized "the strange victimhood complex among conservatives at Harvard." His editorial surprised me because I know many of the conservatives on campus, and none of them suffer this complex...
...they're usually maligned by the campus press. It might be expected that a group burdened by such bias would fight for redress and vie for special privilege. Some people do expect that, and they perceive a grab for personal accommodation when conservatives poke fun at the institution of victimhood or satirize Harvard's inequitable (on the low side) distribution of minority privilege to the conservative minority here...
Still, the strange victimhood complex among conservatives at Harvard persists. It's a shame Harvard Magazine gave credence to the assertion that conservatives are an embattled minority at Harvard in the same sense racial minorities and homosexuals were in the past...