Word: victimness
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...Sunni families being forced out of al-Shulla by the influx of Shi'ites. "I don't care if the house we get here is smaller than the one we left," Nema says. The only certainty: she will never return to her old home. To be twice a victim of Iraq's sectarian hatreds is quite enough...
...those detainees. Says Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, another of the lawyers in the case (al-Odah v. United States): "Mr. al-Qahtani's statements were elicited in a manner that undermines their credibility entirely. The logs reveal that, with a single day's exception, al-Qahtani was the victim of sleep deprivation that usually lasted a full 20 hours a day for seven straight weeks...
...Martin Peretz, wrote in the magazine that an “alliance of frightened souls and hyped-up orators” chased Summers out. The most visible rebuke came on the Op-Ed page of Saturday’s New York Times. Columnist John Tierney cast Summers as a victim of professors with “delicate psyches” who are “accustomed to teaching whatever’s in their latest book.” Frustrated by these and other attacks in the national media that are painting them as reactionary, lazy, radical, and worse, professors...
...been likened to a “purge,” a “lynching,” and a “coup d’etat.” In some circles, Summers has been crowned a “martyr,” the victim of rampant “political correctness” among a faculty comprised of left-wing nut-jobs. Those who defend Summers often speak in the language of apocalypse, as if Harvard will not survive without Larry Summers at the helm...
...should remember that “political correctness” was a concept invented by conservatives to malign progressive attempts to democratize and diversify the academy and to make higher education more hospitable to a broader range of people and ideas. Those who characterize Summers as an undeserving victim of “political correctness” fail to apprehend the real significance of his truncated tenure...