Because I really am starting to believe we're living in a culture where victimhood is currency. You can be an internet "activist" who writes articles on the way your tribe is subjugated, and earn attention and money talking about it under the guise of "social sciences". You can also sue and fine someone who has made a perceived slight against you for monetary gain.
It's fraudulent, and these people care more about being part of an oppressed victim class than they do uplifting people and making real change to their own situations.
It's fraudulent, and these people care more about being part of an oppressed victim class than they do uplifting people and making real change to their own situations.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
