Personally I think this article should have been about the trend of victimhood and not about Christians as victims.
Personally I think this article should have been about the trend of victimhood and not about Christians as victims.
I've seen so-called 'victimhood' a lot over the years and noticed myself the truism of 'he who is loudest is right'. Both if these things annoy me. I don't know if there's a psychological term for waiting to be a victim, or looking for some excuse to be a victim, but that behavior is rampant in our modern American culture.
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I've seen so-called 'victimhood' a lot over the years and noticed myself the truism of 'he who is loudest is right'. Both if these things annoy me. I don't know if there's a psychological term for waiting to be a victim, or looking for some excuse to be a victim, but that behavior is rampant in our modern American culture.
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Personally, I don't like self made victimize, which is what the above piece reminds me off.
But is that it? Is the association between mass majorities of us looking for excuses to be victims a direct relation to wanting to see the underdog win?
What I've noticed over the years is that there seems less of that type of mentality in the world, U.S. at least. I was taught that an underdog was someone that busted their butts and came out ahead even though the odds were against them. I was never taught that an underdog was a victim, just a dog that hasn't had his day yet.
Maybe that's the issue, maybe people are confusing being a victim with being an underdog.
Of course there is always that possibility that the repeat victim just needs that type of attention. I know a few and even have / had a few in my family that have to have that victim attention.
No one was attacking her, just her argument, yet she couldn't separate the two. Needless to say, all the white knights came to her defense.
She blocked me a long time ago. But whenever this subject come up I think of her and the dozens like her I see on here every day. Oddly, this doesn't happen on Facebook nearly as much as it happens here. I wonder why that is? Because FB is full of real life friends?
Conversely, the modern underdog is someone who is considered incapable of handling their situation on their own, and is therefore in need of help. What we're talking about here are people who want desperately to be considered underdogs, not because they are in trouble, but as a tool to manipulate others.
The problem is, real underdogs don't ask for squat. They forge ahead regardless.
Just my take on it. Personally I don't understand what the big deal is if people want to believe in a divine power or not. Because someone doesn't believe like you doesn't make you a victim. People want to see real religious persecution they should live overseas in the 2nd and 3rd world country. Hell, even in some 1st world countries it's still going on.
Of course there is the cartoon Underdog.