{"id":58676,"date":"2025-09-30T01:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=58676"},"modified":"2025-09-29T09:54:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:54:52","slug":"qotd-the-modern-cult-of-victimhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/09\/30\/qotd-the-modern-cult-of-victimhood\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The modern cult of &#8220;victimhood&#8221;"},"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:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright 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>It is the idea of &#8220;victimhood&#8221;; the idea that a man is not responsible for his acts; that he is instead a victim of the oppression of some abstraction called &#8220;society&#8221; &mdash; because he is black, or on welfare, or whatever. And everyone who isn&#8217;t can be held guilty, regardless of how they have actually behaved.<\/p>\n<p>Oppressed by whom?<\/p>\n<p>Oppressed, actually, by the implied permission that is granted in advance, to looters, and rapists, and thugs, and amateur neighbourhood terrorists, by that very satanic idea of victimhood, and its practical corollary, that if you can play the victim, you can manoeuvre yourself into a position to victimize everyone around you.<\/p>\n<p>David Warren, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidwarrenonline.com\/index.php?artID=508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Bad Gumbo&#8221;, <em>DavidWarrenOnline<\/em><\/a>, 2005-09-03.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the idea of &#8220;victimhood&#8221;; the idea that a man is not responsible for his acts; that he is instead a victim of the oppression of some abstraction called &#8220;society&#8221; &mdash; because he is black, or on welfare, or whatever. And everyone who isn&#8217;t can be held guilty, regardless of how they have actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,53,41,13],"tags":[343,262,1020,99],"class_list":["post-58676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-culture","tag-progressives","tag-racism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-fgo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98198,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58676\/revisions\/98198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}