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If you are a victim you are entitled to treat your victimizer with contempt and, increasingly, violence. It removes your victimizer from then normal moral calc
by recursivedoubts 6y ago
If you are a victim you are entitled to treat your victimizer with contempt and, increasingly, violence. It removes your victimizer from then normal moral calculus.
All the better if the victimizer can be made a general category, and as amorphous and abstract as possible, thereby allowing your manipulator to direct your anger at whoever they choose from that category.
Note that this does not necessarily mean that you aren't a victim with legitimate complaints.
- XorNot 6y agoI don't know if this covers how people "feel" so much as how they justify how they act but it does cover something important. The language of victimhood is standard amongst despots and fascists. The enemy is simultaneously weak and easily defeated, and an imminent threat to which we can never let our guard down.
- tryonenow 6y ago>If you are a victim you are entitled to treat your victimizer with contempt and, increasingly, violence. It removes your victimizer from then normal moral calculus. And more pertinent to today's increasingly popular political machinations, it provides a faux justification to exercise power over others for personal or in-group gain.
- insert_coin 6y agoThe thing is if you are the victim, it is because you are personally the victim. The moment a whole category of people become victims just by definition, or for acts committed even before they were born the word loses all meaning.