#perpetual victimhood

[sandycheekscockvore]

black and white "oppressor class vs oppressed class" thinking is a fucking cancer on everything

most things do not work like that but people categorize so that there are only two groups represented by their extremities which do not tend to represent the majority.

black vs white. straight vs gay. men vs women. rich vs poor. normal vs weird. pretty vs ugly. middle class vs working class. left vs right.

it's such a stupid way to think. i hate marx. i hate marxists. i hate critical theory. i hate academia. i hate politicks. i hate leftists. i hate blanketing groups. i hate the rejection of the individual human. i hate the subversion of every movement to be about establishing communism and purging undesirable people. i hate it. i hate the system. i reject the system. leave me be.

no matter how much you whine and piss and moan to me, i can see with my eyes that it is untrue and it is rooted in lies.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/university-elite-caught-playing-selective-free-speech/news-story/32561dd0c41fd0a2df6f4e20298ea46d

University elite caught playing ‘selective free speech’

By: Claire Lehmann

Published: Dec 15, 2023

Three Ivy League presidents made international headlines when they told a recent congressional hearing that calls for the genocide of Jews would only contravene their bullying and harassment policies “depending on the context”.

In response to their testimony – which went viral – wealthy individuals cancelled donations in the hundreds of millions of dollars, and one of the presidents, Liz Magill, has since tendered her resignation letter. Another scandal has erupted over Harvard president Claudine Gay, as it has emerged that she has quoted other scholars without citation (also known as plagiarism) throughout her career.

The scandal has been a PR fiasco worthy of study at Harvard Business School. And it is a sign that the Ivies are losing their prestige. But the reasons are complicated and belie any simple analysis.

In short, over the course of a few short decades, the universities presided over by these presidents have undergone a transformation in moral culture. At one time, they recognised everyone’s equal human dignity and held the principle of free speech as sacrosanct. However, they have now shifted towards elevating victimhood as the highest virtue while encouraging hypersensitivity to perceived injustice.

According to sociologists Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning, victimhood culture – colloquially known as “wokeness” – emerged from America’s Ivies first before spreading outwards into mainstream society.

Like a poison apple, victimhood culture looks perfectly fine from the outside, encased in euphemisms such as “diversity”, “equity” and “inclusion”. But it has a toxic core.

Its toxicity emerges when people are encouraged to see themselves as perpetual victims, and are rewarded for nurturing and prosecuting endless grievances. It was on these campuses that this ideology first spread (among some of the most privileged people in the world) and it was there that its maxims were first put into practice. Protected groups were given special status through affirmative action and other forms of positive discrimination, and students in the humanities were taught to weigh “lived experience” over objective truth.

As these ideas took hold, they manifested in tangible ways within university settings. It has culminated in the past decade in the widespread use of trigger warnings, safe spaces and microaggressions. Young adults came to behave like divas at luxury resorts, rather than students expected to study and learn. This poisonous culture seeped out into the rest of the world. Into media, corporations and Silicon Valley, and spreading all the way to Australia’s shores.

But this is where it gets complicated. Slogans such as “There is only one solution, intifada revolution” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” are protected by the First Amendment – even though they are threatening to many people. And in an ideal world, universities should be trying to adhere to the First Amendment. Freedom of expression is a foundational principle of the university.

Nevertheless, universities must grapple with the fine line between protected speech and incitement to violence. Do such chants as “From the river to the sea” cross the line? Reasonable people may disagree. What is not OK is the physical intimidation and harassment experienced by Jewish students around the world since October 7. Students have been punched and spat on. And students around the world, including in Australia, report feeling scared.

It’s worth engaging in a thought experiment here. If neo-Nazis marched through Harvard under banners with swastikas emblazoned chanting “Heil Hitler”, would the president of Harvard remind us that such chants need to be understood in “context”? Would she defend the free speech of neo-Nazis’? A genuine commitment to the First Amendment would require it. In reality, neo-Nazis would more likely be escorted off campus by security or police.

The problem is that the culture that created the concept of “microaggression” is now blind to very real macroaggressions against students attending its institutions.

But it’s a complex moral conundrum, because victimhood culture should be repudiated. It is a road to nowhere except grievance and conflict.

And, despite the very real instances of intimidation and assault, it would be a mistake for Jewish students to adopt a hypersensitive approach that interprets ambiguous messages as hostility.

Balancing the rejection of victimhood culture with fair treatment for Jewish students is not easy. A responsible administration would ensure all students are free from intimidation and the threat of physical and verbal attacks, while reminding students that they should expect to be made to feel uncomfortable in the classroom. The job of colleges is to keep students physically safe, while challenging them intellectually.

At the same time, however, it is only natural for beleaguered Jewish students to want to be treated fairly. Other student groups at colleges have successfully had statues removed, buildings renamed, academic events cancelled and speakers deplatformed, because of distant connections to slavery that they find offensive. Is it too much to ask people to stop chanting genocidal slogans in the days and weeks after a genocidal terrorist attack?

Such demands for fairness raise important questions about the treatment of different groups on campuses. If universities had consistently upheld the principles of free speech over the past two decades, scholars who investigate controversial questions related to sex and race differences would not have faced marginalisation.

Conservatives and pro-life advocates would have the freedom to host seminars for students, and feminists who argue that men cannot become women would not face deplatforming. Many other speakers whose views may be considered offensive to “woke” sensibilities would also be welcomed on campus. However, this hasn’t been the case, and universities are only now realising the importance of free speech when they find themselves in need of it.

The Ivies’ current dilemma is a consequence of their own making. They want to reject victimhood culture in this particular instance where they have failed a minority group that has legitimate grievances. However, to do so, they are appealing to principles that they abandoned long ago. In 2023, Harvard received the worst-ever free speech ranking for an American college (as judged by FIRE, an American legal non-profit).

The Ivies need to understand the principle of free speech is not one that can be applied selectively. It applies to everyone, or it does not apply at all.

[ Via: https://archive.is/KoC6v ]

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[pathologising]

to me there is no useful purpose in identifying so strongly with misery. I can be miserable and I can grieve, but I am not misery. Because, when you begin to identify with misery and personify it, misery then consumes you and you can't escape it. For the longest time I identified so strongly with my misery and it hindered my recovery tenfold, I became a self fulfilling prophecy wherein I was bound to focus on the miserable and the negative. So anyway what im trying to say is we are allowed to be miserable but it is in our best interest to not identify as an entity of misery and an entity of inherent tragedy, rather an entity of resilience and survival.

[transvarmint]

Being a woman does not make you immune to being misogynistic, nor does it make you any less prone to being misogynistic.

You are not less misogynistic by virtue of being a woman. You are not any less capable of perpetrating it.

To believe that being a woman in and of itself makes you less likely to be misogynistic is just essentialism. It implies that other genders are more misogynistic solely only the basis of their gender, rather than being misogynistic based on the choices they actively make.

To not be misogynistic, you must actively choose to fight against it, everyday. You must actively make choices that challenges systemic and social misogyny. You must question your own biases and how they influence your behavior.

You cannot be passively anti-misogyny. Your gender does not give you a free pass.

And importantly, women can absolutely perpetuate misogyny against other women, AND people who are not women. So you must be checking yourself for misogynistic bias in ALL interactions.

*** Before anyone comes at me, YES this applies to men and all genders as well. No, I'm not blaming women for systemic misogyny. I'm simply pointing out that everyone plays a role in it. Women are capable of perpetuating bigotry, especially if there are other intersections at play. Women are not perfect victims, they are human beings who have autonomy, and that autonomy includes the capability to uphold harmful institutions. ***

*** Also yes, experiencing misogyny on a daily basis will cause you to have a different relationship to it. Some folks respond to that by fighting against misogyny, but others respond to that trauma by continuing the cycle of abuse. This is just a fact. ***

[stardust-falling]

No matter how much trauma you have experienced, you never have the right to inflict that trauma on others.

[ariesbilly]

antis will really sit there with a straight face and be like “nobody cares if you ship harringrove. nobody harasses anyone for shipping harringrove. yall went unchecked for YEARS” (which.... what part of shipping something needs to be checked ? lmfao okay) 

like we all havent sat here since 2017 getting death threats and hate anons, yall CONSTANTLY complaining that people like billy/harringrove, putting shit in OUR tags, coming onto OUR posts to bitch, etc etc like..... idk what bubble yall are living in or if yall just like are trying to gaslight people on purpose but no maam! we’re not doing that. no no

st fandom is THE most obnoxious group of people but yall wanna play victim every time someone who likes billy speaks up to say hey shut the fuck up, or, god forbid, we start talking about how other ships/characters are stupid as hell

eat my ass

[hezekiahwakely]

Terfs are really doing the most to set back feminism by decades huh

[treestomeetyou]

absolutely bonkers to me that some of y’all are out here saying a victim owes their assaulter forgiveness, or even understanding.

ben has his reasons for his actions, but it’s important to understand that those reasons aren’t justifications.

[bowserwife]

You literally are male tho. That's just a biological classification. You can identify as a woman and also be male both of those things can happen. Good luck always wanting to be the most oppressed person in every room tho whitey 👍

Ur gonna have to get up pretty early in the morning to get me with the old "Oh yeah? Well I may be transphobic but you're white!" gambit, babygirl.

[tillywhim]

A 12-MONTH RECONCILLIATION & OTHER SUBJECTS

When Harry and Meghan decided to "step back" as "senior working royals" in January 2020, it was agreed by HM Queen Elizabeth II and the then Prince of Wales, HRH Prince Charles and HRH Prince William that a 12 month review of this decision would take place in January 2021. The fact Our Lady of Perpetual Victimhood is letting it be known in the press and popular media that the Sussex family is willing to reconcile with the rest of the family following the death of Her Majesty, but giving it a time scale of 12 months is testament to her pettiness. Not for her a press release saying "times like this make you realise how important family is..."

Her shallow, peevish, point-scoring, one-upmanship, mentality practically screams out for satisfaction, for revenge. This is why the Montecito Moanarchy has put a 12 month timescale on the reconciliation.

Harry, his memoir and Netflix. Poor old Harry, hey. What's a poor, misunderstood, downtrodden, hounded Princeling to do? Fed up with life in the goldfish bowl/Truman Show world that is the British Royal Family, he ups sticks with his wife and baby son, and, with the blessings of his family flees to that well known bastion of privacy and solitude, California.

Yes, after a decade spent playing call of duty doing his duty as a serving soldier in HM's army, followed by a stint as the 3rd wheel to the Prince and Princess of Wales, Saint Henry of the Wounded Ego, fed up to the back teeth of the constant hounding of the press and paparazzi of himself and his beleaguered girlfriend/wife made the very wise and impossibly grown-up decision to do what she tells him and they returned to her home state. They wanted to get away from all the intrusions and as Meghan said, they don't have tabloids where she comes from!

So, Harry wanted his privacy, as did Meghan. On their terms. This is the story of their lives. Everything has to be on their terms. Meghan has no problem giving interviews to Oprah, Ellen and now it seems every cut-rate gossip mag masquerading as serious journalism. Harry is willing to invade his own privacy as long as the price is right. Worse, if the price is better than he was expecting, he is quite happy to invade the privacy of the family he left behind in the UK.

His paymasters at Netflix and Penguin Random House have shelled out multi-million $$$ for the inside stories of the "Standing Out With the Sussexes" and "Harry Windsor - How I went From Spare to Hero to Handbag" and they want their pound of flesh. As we've seen, Harry is learning self-promotion well, people are already talking about the book, it's being insinuated that a chapter here and there is being either heavily edited/rewritten or even taken out and allusions are being made to the affair that never was between William and Rose Hanbury. Simply by doing that, he's garnered interest for the book and conversely for the series.

Another year, another paid for "humanitarian" award? Meghan's jealousy really does know no bounds does it?

On the anniversary of the moon landing, 20 July 2022, Boston was announced as the host city for this year's Earthshot Awards. Inspired by President John F. Kennedy's "moonshot" challenge, it seems fitting to have the second award here in his home city. Working with The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and the city of Boston, the awards will be broadcast to a global audience. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy (JFK's daughter) said, " “There is no more important Moonshot today than repairing the planet and no better place to harness the Moonshot spirit than the City of Boston.”

Which brings us back to Meghan because of course it does. It always does. Suddenly a few days ago, along with President Zelensky of Ukraine, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were late announcements for the Robert F. Kennedy "Ripple of Hope" awards 2022. See? William is parterning with the Kennedys, America's answer to the royal family? Well, gosh, darn it! Meghan and Harry are going to do something with the Kennedy's too. So there!

Now, I'm not saying they paid for this award. I'm not 100% certain they could afford to pay for a table looking at the prices if the rumours of their financial situation is to be believed but, I'm also not not saying they paid for this award. They have a track record so, make of it what you will. Click on the photos of the other recipients and you get a short bio of who they are and the work they do (why they're getting the award). Click on the photo of the duplicitous duo and you get the photo credit. And yet, according to Kerry Kennedy, daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, the pair were made aware they had been awarded the prize back in March. To me, that speaks volumes.

[menderash]

do terfs rly see actual neo-nazis and anti-gay senators agreeing with and supporting them and not have a single 'are we the baddies' moment? like that's how you know how utterly selfishly racist and homophobic and wholly conservative the movement is. they'll gladly throw literally every other oppressed minority under the bus to hurt just one small faction of them, because they think female oppression is the only oppression that deserves resolution. if you asked them to examine white women's historical complicity in western racism against men of color their heads would explode because, like many other deliriously paranoid far right conservatives, the concept intersectional societal privilege requires a level of humility, empathy, and self awareness they are allergic to.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"Those who claim to be hurt by words must be led to expect nothing as compensation. Otherwise, once they learn they can get something by claiming to be hurt, they will go into the business of being offended." -- Jonathan Rauch (Kindly Inquisitors, 1993)

[hairtusk]

sometimes you have to block someone because you cannot physically read 'every man on earth will eventually harm you irrevocably if you give them the chance' 40,000,000 times a day with no nuance

[bubtans]

i literally feel so much more at peace here holy shit twitter is awful

[menalez]

like i believe havekat ran a radfem gossip blog at one point and i remember when i pointed out that whoever ran said blog has me blocked so i don’t show in the notes, she unblocked me on havekat soon after and suddenly i showed in the notes. that’s when i realised she was running that gossip blog which btw was 90% or so about me, saying the vilest things about me. but ofc we could argue it’s all a weird coincidence and totally not her. when i was fed up with her racism & bullshit & spoke against her (after side eyeing her for 2 years and trying to see the best in her, to no avail) she blocks me on havekat first and THEN rad-bad soon after, which again confirms to me that they’re the same blog. she even straight up admitted to that blog (rad-bad, yiya-whatever-etc) being hers after commenting on my post on tyler oakley… i had no inkling before then that she ran havekat. and now after all this, she projects the type of shit she does (like send in anons about me and partake in anon harassment via gossip blogs that she created) onto me. i don’t know who she thinks she’s tricking bc she did not put much effort into hiding who she is, even revealing her full name and then pretending her white girl selfies are some mysterious ex gf she finds pretty, but i find her trying to pin it on me suspicious.

[thefabelmans2022]

does anyone else ever become paranoid that you're a narcissist and therefore irredeemably evil or is that just me