Racism, Victimhood, and Louisiana v. Callais

The American Spectator ^ | October 15, 2025, 10:04 PM | Scott McKay

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When victimhood is fake, even a moral society is within its bounds to reject it.

In one of last week’s columns, I said something that generated a little bit of feedback; namely, I said that modern victimhood culture leads to the end of civilization because its proponents blow up the rules by which civilization is agreed on.

And without dragging the reader of this column through that previous argument, I’ll explain the point this way — people whose goal is to achieve their own victimhood will act in highly destructive and irrational ways. Or at least, irrational in any other respect outside of achieving victimhood.

An example I gave was the video of the Antifa agitator in Portland berating an ICE officer and then spitting on him, which generated the predictable result that Antifa Boy was promptly roughly arrested, and that was the result he was looking for. The rough arrest made him a victim, you see, and if the video was edited just right, the arresting officers would then be made to look like thugs.

Victimhood culture is poison. It’s very, very bad stuff. Eventually, the infrastructure on which it depends frays and then tears. Which, of course, is the aim of victimhood culture, and then the “victims” almost immediately morph into the aggressors.

But only in one scenario.

In another, the people accused as victimizers stop caring about the accusation.

As I noted, the practitioners of this grift in the modern political arena are riding on the coattails of the Civil Rights movement, which used nonviolent means to highlight the victimization of the black community by racist Southern society. And those methods were adopted from the nonviolent struggle that Mohandas Gandhi and the Indian independence movement adopted in their efforts to throw off British rule.

But Gandhi...

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