Word: victimizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...than we. As they share their pain and are applauded by the studio audience, we are bombarded with the message that victimhood = fame + recognition, and since we have also been taught that fame + recognition = importance we must conclude that the best way to become important is to become a victim of something...
...take another look at Tadesse's situation. She may well have felt unimportant--by most accounts she had few close friends and did not seem to fit well into campus life. So the only way to achieve importance was though becoming a victim, and unfortunately, Tadesse didn't have much going for her in that department. She was on a full scholarship to one of the world's most prestigious universities, en route to a career in medicine. She was a graduate of an international school in Ethiopia, and, let's face it, in one of the worlds' poorest countries...
...sells magazines, as does negative coverage of Harvard; one need only look at the coverage of the Gina Grant fiasco to observe that. One cannot even wholly fault the public for the ease with which it played into Tadesse's scheme to go out as Cambridge's most celebrated victim--it is too much a part of our culture...
...above it all. Like it or not, as the nation's best-known university, Harvard occupies the position of intellectual standard-bearer for millions of people. For the university whose professors appear everywhere from "Nova" to "Ann Landers" to provide the same honors to a murderer as to her victim is not only an insult to the family and friends of Trang Ho, it is downright irresponsible. It perpetuates the message that anything is forgivable, so long as you yourself are a victim...
...last summer at the World Trade Center bombing trial that the prosecution in that case tried to pressure him to change his testimony. If Judge Ito agrees to let him testify, he is expected to challenge the FBI laboratory analysis of blood allegedly belonging to O.J. Simpson and the victims. In testimony today, Justice Department scientist Gary Sims said that three bloodstains he tested from inside Simpson's Bronco show a combination of blood consistent with the blood of Simpson and murder victim Ronald Goldman...