An excellent piece. Thank you so much. Please do not be silenced.
I would add a couple of points.
1 - The business of the glorification and near-deification of the so-called victim, which crept into intellectual parlance in the US courtesy of Foucault, Derriga et al. and has grown almost deafening in its loud, self-righteous, religiously f…
An excellent piece. Thank you so much. Please do not be silenced.
I would add a couple of points.
1 - The business of the glorification and near-deification of the so-called victim, which crept into intellectual parlance in the US courtesy of Foucault, Derriga et al. and has grown almost deafening in its loud, self-righteous, religiously fervent and overbearing insistence on its own correctness, is absolutely crippling the intellect and the ability of many to see straight.
2 - People adapting this view appear to become almost physically unable to stop themselves from craven crawling after and prostration after over all that can be deemed "BIPOC" "LGBTQ+", "Colonized" or what victim-name they fasten onto. Whether the motivation is guilt or just a wish to be loved, it is simply frightening how quickly persons afflicted with this victim worship born-againism seem to be totally unable to look at a spade and recognize it as a shovel, let alone call it one.
3 - So we get ourselves into situations where we have intellectuals (so-called) and the policy makers (so called) who cannot, cannot, CANNOT perceive that truly oppressive, violent and vile actions that CAN be meted out by human beings (BIPOC OR NOT) when their lust for power, revenge, or money or a combination of the three has allowed them to tune into and turn up the volume on their own very dark sides. REGARDLESS of "motivation", allowing oneself to be become a monster is to become a monster. I don't care if the person was beaten as a child -- if they grow up to become a child-beater, they are a child beater. Not a victim. A victimizer. Life in the refugee camps may be tough, but if your answer to being used as a political pawn (yes, that IS what the Palestinians have been living with since their Arab brethren failed to wipe out Israel in the war of 1948) is to become a murderer and a rapist and a terrorist, then --- good heavens! -- you ARE a murderer and a rapist and a terrorist. This is Hamas; and the the mullahs in Teheran who fund them are quite ready to fight the "great Satan" and the "little Satan" in THEIR lust for power and regional hegemony to the last Palestinian.
And the list of monsters certainly doesn't stop there. This is Hezbollah. These are the Houthis. And in the West, this is BLM.
Really and truly...... it is time to stop worshiping the so-called victim, open our eyes, and understand simple truths such as burying bombs under hospitals and refugee camps, and moving outside those refugee camps to kill, rape and burn OR JUSTIFYING THOSE ACTS is the work of perverted, twisted and dark minds and hearts, NOT the actions of so-called liberators or freedom fighters,. Evil is evil. Deal with it.
An excellent piece. Thank you so much. Please do not be silenced.
I would add a couple of points.
1 - The business of the glorification and near-deification of the so-called victim, which crept into intellectual parlance in the US courtesy of Foucault, Derriga et al. and has grown almost deafening in its loud, self-righteous, religiously fervent and overbearing insistence on its own correctness, is absolutely crippling the intellect and the ability of many to see straight.
2 - People adapting this view appear to become almost physically unable to stop themselves from craven crawling after and prostration after over all that can be deemed "BIPOC" "LGBTQ+", "Colonized" or what victim-name they fasten onto. Whether the motivation is guilt or just a wish to be loved, it is simply frightening how quickly persons afflicted with this victim worship born-againism seem to be totally unable to look at a spade and recognize it as a shovel, let alone call it one.
3 - So we get ourselves into situations where we have intellectuals (so-called) and the policy makers (so called) who cannot, cannot, CANNOT perceive that truly oppressive, violent and vile actions that CAN be meted out by human beings (BIPOC OR NOT) when their lust for power, revenge, or money or a combination of the three has allowed them to tune into and turn up the volume on their own very dark sides. REGARDLESS of "motivation", allowing oneself to be become a monster is to become a monster. I don't care if the person was beaten as a child -- if they grow up to become a child-beater, they are a child beater. Not a victim. A victimizer. Life in the refugee camps may be tough, but if your answer to being used as a political pawn (yes, that IS what the Palestinians have been living with since their Arab brethren failed to wipe out Israel in the war of 1948) is to become a murderer and a rapist and a terrorist, then --- good heavens! -- you ARE a murderer and a rapist and a terrorist. This is Hamas; and the the mullahs in Teheran who fund them are quite ready to fight the "great Satan" and the "little Satan" in THEIR lust for power and regional hegemony to the last Palestinian.
And the list of monsters certainly doesn't stop there. This is Hezbollah. These are the Houthis. And in the West, this is BLM.
Really and truly...... it is time to stop worshiping the so-called victim, open our eyes, and understand simple truths such as burying bombs under hospitals and refugee camps, and moving outside those refugee camps to kill, rape and burn OR JUSTIFYING THOSE ACTS is the work of perverted, twisted and dark minds and hearts, NOT the actions of so-called liberators or freedom fighters,. Evil is evil. Deal with it.