An exaggerated sense of being “wronged” seems to be driving much politics today.
The Culture of Victimhood is toxic.
Interesting subject. Hitler rose to power because the Germans felt wronged.
It probably goes back to the dawn of time.
This is what is wrong with much of our society.
People need to stop being so easily offended.
I guess that's what happens when the level of prosperity that we are currently enjoying comes to fruition.
People aren't so busy making a living and staying alive to that now they can focus on petty stuff like that.
Therein lies the problem, the left do not want to discuss. Instead they always claim the moral high road, and refuse to listen to anything that opposes their beliefs. Just as man being the cause of "climate change" is settled science as far as they are concerned, no further discussion is wanted or allowed. In their mind anyone questioning that "settled science" need to be jailed or worse. The same holds true for any & all of their beliefs. They are right, we are wrong end of discussion that never began in the first place. They will not let you discuss any further. You will be threatened and belittled unless you conform. No wonder they love Islam, as there too is no room for discussion that might oppose their beliefs.
Look at this quote from The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead 1958 and see if it sounds familiar.
…but the fact remained that this was a predatory state which the Czar and a small group of noblemen and bureaucrats ruled for their own exclusive benefit. The peasant was a serf who could not have any ambition other than to die early and peacefully, or survive with a minimum of work, taxes, hunger and beatings. The ruling group owned all the wealth, enjoyed all the privileges and monopolized all the political power, and it did not intend to give up any of its prerogatives. It considered the peasants (some 95 percent of the population) to be little better than animals who could not be trusted with the slightest responsibility.
My neighbor’s white kids were on the high school basketball team with three blacks. The five of them were almost always together. I’d talked to all of them and they seemed okay. One day the three blacks stopped to collect a drug debt. The man told them to pound sand. The team captain pulled out a gun and shot him dead. Apparently it was, “pound sand,” followed by “bam!” The captain’s reason for shooting the man was, “He dissed me. I had to.” When I talked to the two white kids they nodded their heads in unison and said, “Yup. He had to.” Part of what we are seeing in politics today is a slightly more civil version of the same bad cultural tick we see in blacks. I read an FBI study, which I have been unable to find since, unfortunately. It was of black and Caucasian cops. The study concluded that black cops were far more likely to kill a black suspect than a Caucasian cop because they knew how dangerous their culture was. (It didn’t put it in those terms but that was the gist of it.)
We are seeing more and more black culture cross-pollinating into Caucasian culture due to exposure in schools, TV, movies and music. Black culture isn’t good for blacks and it’s much worse for Caucasians, who are raised in one culture and forced to interact in a different, and more violent one.
I call it the Power of Victimhood. It’s founded on the notion that suffering somehow confers on the sufferer some vague, unimpeachable moral authority.
Good article. But I feel wronged because you did not mention liberal racism/tribalism. : )