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is, for the left, a kind of moral power, and endows one with the power to extort the supposed victimizers.

It's not a new tactic.Victims hold a cherished place in the liberal heart.With victimhood comes moral power, and the power to extort the supposed victimizers. Liberals have always claimed to be fighting bullies.The only difference is that now the president of the United States openly conflates opposing his agenda with bullying.

is, for the political left, big business. It has turned it into a badge of honor, and something used to consolidate money and power.

Being a victim is big business. The left has turned it into a badge of honor, and something used to consolidate money and power. The social justice warrior elements of the gaming world turned victimization into a cottage industry during GamerGate. One of them, Brianna Wu, is now running for congress. On campus, I also see evidence of students eager to proclaim themselves victims. Whether it is the patriarchy, the government, the white race, or more often all three, students actively seek out opportunities to cry about how terrible their life is.

is such that a dreadful experience tends to raise the question as to whether the one who experienced it is not something dreadful also.

Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also. Friedrich Nietzsche

is such that shame is felt even more by the things done to us than by the things we have done ourselves, for we are sure that we must have in some way inspired them.

More than by mean things we have done, we feel shamed by the mean things done to us'tor these we have inspired.

is, along with lies, what makes evil possible

is folly --- suffering is the mother of fools.

Suffering is the mother of fools, reason of wise men.

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