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November 26, 2016
The Victimhood Olympics
Commit a crime? It’s poverty, education, systematic racism.
Office assistant doesn’t make as much as an underwater welder? Gender wage gap.
Crap on cop cars? Wall St. made me do it.
Beat someone half to death? They were microagressing me with their thoughts.
Financed $100,000 in underwater basketweaving? Capitalism’s fault I don’t make $50/hr at Hot Topic.
It’s an admittedly alluring concept, a life of consequence-free living. It’s not real, but don’t tell poor Bernie that. What happens when you aren’t a victim, however? The obvious answer is to invent a debilitating something, wave your affliction around and now you’re in business. We used to admire people for excelling in a field or a discipline. The millennials have taken that same approach to victimhood and what we watched in Portland was the Victimhood Olympics. Policy solutions to a psychological problem â The Virginia Freeman's Society
Posted by gerardvanderleun at November 26, 2016 9:37 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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I remember a time when a person was a victim it was obvious.
Posted by: ghostsniper at November 26, 2016 1:13 PM