{"id":43792,"date":"2020-09-30T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T05:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=43792"},"modified":"2020-09-29T09:11:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T13:11:38","slug":"qotd-victimhood-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/09\/30\/qotd-victimhood-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Victimhood culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>In their newly released book, <em>The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars<\/em>, the moral sociologists Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning describe the three main moral cultures that exist today, which they give the shorthand labels of dignity, honor, and victimhood. A dignity culture, which has been the dominant moral culture of Western middle classes for some time, has a set of moral values that promotes the idea of <em>moral equality<\/em> and was crystallized in Martin Luther King Jr.&#8217;s vision that people ought to be judged according to the content of their character, not the color of their skin.<\/p>\n<p>Victimhood culture departs from dignity culture in several important ways. Moral worth <em>is<\/em> in large part defined by the color of one&#8217;s skin, or at least one&#8217;s membership in a fixed identity group: i.e., women, people of color, LGBTIQ, Muslims, or indigenous peoples. Such groups are sacred, and a lack of deference to them is seen as a sign of deviance. The reverse is true for those who belong to groups that are considered historical oppressors: whites, males, straight people, Zionists. Anyone belonging to an &#8220;oppressor&#8221; group is stained by their privilege, or &#8220;whiteness,&#8221; and is cast onto the moral scrapheap.<\/p>\n<p>Claire Lehmann, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/jewish-news-and-politics\/263933\/cultural-appropriation\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Evils of Cultural Appropriation&#8221;, <em>Tablet<\/em><\/a>, 2018-06-11.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their newly released book, The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars, the moral sociologists Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning describe the three main moral cultures that exist today, which they give the shorthand labels of dignity, honor, and victimhood. 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