On victimization
- The worst thing that liberalism ever did for American culture
was to elevate the status of "victim" to a level at which it has become
almost universally coveted. This occurred when we allowed victimization
to be interpreted as a free pass for unlimited self-righteousness and
wretchedly bad behavior.
- Modern American culture can be viewed, cynically, as a messy scrum in which a variety of groups, most of which are doing quite well, compete to have their victimized status validated by others.
- The press and the larger media are complicit in this sorry development.
- In the 1980s and 1990s, the Cult of Victimization reached its left-wing apex with "politically correct" intellectual group-think. Once identified, it began to recede.
- The right-wing now claims victimized status via the oppression of
The Liberal Media, Hollywood, "activist judges," intellectuals,
homosexuals and non-Judeo-Christian religions.
- The Rhetoric of Victimization has justified absurd levels of
rudeness, and this occurs not only on the political/cultural scale, but
also at the level of interpersonal relationships.
- The real losers in the victimization craze? Actual victims.
Editor's Note: The original Xarker Manifesto was published on this site on June 29, 2005. Subsequent changes and additions appear with a date attached.
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