A World of Real and Imagined Victims

We live in a world where seemingly every one plays the victim, at least occasionally. You can see this all over social media, where people reveal their private lives in shocking detail, and paint themselves as the victims of some kind of injustice or unfairness. Others enable this mindset with supportive comments.

Now, there are some truly heartbreaking tales of woe on social media. People who are genuinely struggling, and seem to have no family members who care enough to help. They aren’t virtue signaling. They’re relegated to posting their personal PayPal, or Venmo, or GoFundMe accounts, in what amounts to digital begging. I know too many of these people. I’m pretty sure that no matter how many times they ask, few people actually send them money. These are real victims, of a rigged marketplace, of too many vaccines which put them somewhere on the autism “spectrum,” of families who are too selfish to put up with their eccentricities. Too disappointed in their inability to be self-sufficient. “My parents kicked me out of the house the day I turned eighteen! And I’m glad they did!” The favorite Biblical verse of many devout Christians is “the Lord helps those who help themselves.” Only, that’s not in the Bible. The Geography of Nowhe... James Howard Kunstler Best Price: $1.17 Buy New $11.88 (as of 10:41 UTC - Details)

I’ve written a lot about family dysfunction, especially in our crumbling America 2.0. So many problems could be resolved, so many struggling people could be healed, by family members simply hugging them harder and truly loving them. Understanding that it is indeed a “cold, cruel world,” as my dear Mother used to tell me. If you can’t count on your family when you’re down and out, then who can you count on? Anyone who is eking by on Social Security disability, or some other government program, is most decidedly a victim. Either a victim of some physical malady which renders them unable to work, or an emotional/mental issue that prevents them from fitting in at any workplace. And, too often, a victim of parents, children, siblings, or other family members, who are too “busy with their lives” to provide guidance. Too “busy” sometimes even to have them over for Thanksgiving or Christmas. But it’s easier to just call them a “loser,” or the new favorite, “snowflake.”

There are other kinds of victims. Think of all the victims of our corrupt legal system. Framed by planted evidence. Out of control police. In the wrong place at the wrong time. Victims of a public defender that will spend an average of five minutes with them. Victims of an unprincipled prosecutor interested in “winning,” not justice. Victims of unbelievably stupid juries, who pay no attention to the concept of presumed innocence. How many prisoners, some serving decades behind bars, have been freed by DNA evidence in recent years? Is there a higher form of victimhood than being incarcerated, losing your freedom, for a crime you didn’t commit? How about all the victims shot and killed by police, for egregious offenses like a busted tail light or jaywalking? Or shot by police when a family member unwisely called them to resolve a dispute? Remember, never, ever call the police.

Every whistleblower is a victim. They are never celebrated, and usually even the public is against them. For attempting to expose corruption, they are targeted for retaliation. Yet I don’t hear Julian Assange or Edward Snowden trying to play the victim card, which they have every right to do. You’d think that Bradley/Chelsea Manning should be able to work his/her transgenderism into the equation, and become some kind of a victim. Not for courageous whistleblowing, perhaps, but for simply being a transwoman. Can incels claim victimhood? To be fair, they’re being denied sex by seemingly all females. Or are the females the victims of socially awkward but aggressive and horny incels? If the sex dolls become as popular as some incels expect, will they become defined as victims? After all, they’ll be getting no respect, and are only literal, universal sex objects.

I wrote a book about some of the saddest victims in our society. Bullyocracy: How the Social Hierarchy Enables Bullies to Rule Schools, Workplaces, and Society at Large details how all of our institutions value and support bullying. While lip service is paid to their status as victims, in reality schools, workplaces, private groups, and the government don’t in fact treat them as victims. Usually. With the transgender craze (largely insignificant when I wrote the book), this may have changed. Certainly, anyone looking crossways at a “transitioned” individual is going to be seen as victimizing them. I cited cases of middle age adults still waking up screaming at night, having struggled through adulthood without being able to form a relationship, over the trauma they experienced at the hands of bullies when they were children. Every person involved in each of those instances should feel absolute shame over it.

All soldiers are victims. Sure, the sheeple mindlessly thank them for their service, but they always face the prospect of being shipped into some godforsaken part of the world, where they’ll be given strict guidelines on what they can and can’t do. And, of course, the specter of World War III is ever present. They certainly don’t want to join the millions of other young men, killed for no logical reason, in our countless wars. Cannon fodder for the bankers who create and finance these senseless conflicts. Your family may get a cool posthumous medal, and the neighbors will pay homage to the soldier’s memory, but the dead victim won’t get to enjoy that. Now the ones that survive may be considered living heroes, so it’s a great deal for them. Plus, you’ll get that handy no money down real estate benefit. You’ll have inadequate health care, but then so do most of the civilians.

How about all the victims of the Medical Industrial Complex? They are, at best, the third leading cause of death in this country after all. How about victims of unfair job termination, which happened to me in 2018? Or being “cancelled” from your job because of something you posted on social media? Not death threats, not slanderous things about your employer. Political opinions that aren’t tolerated in America 2.0. And that makes you largely unemployable, because all businesses operate under the same “Woke” guidelines. Victims of unethical mechanics, ripped off simply because they don’t know anything about cars. Victims of scams and Ponzi schemes. Just because you’re naive or gullible, it doesn’t make you less of a victim. Victims of rape or robbery. Especially with rape, left scarred forever. Even worse, children who were sexually assaulted, usually by friends or family, and struggle to lead normal lives.

10-Minute Strength Tra... Deboo PT, Ed Buy New $10.63 (as of 12:01 UTC - Details) So we are a society of victims. At one point or another, all of us have been victimized. Betrayed by a significant other or spouse. Stabbed in the back by friends. Loans never paid back. For myself and other Realtors, helping family members with their real estate transactions, only to have them use another agent, who gets the commission. Passed over for a job promotion, in favor of someone less qualified (DEI or not). Swindled by unscrupulous sharks in any business. I once lost $8,000 when a disarmingly friendly female financial “expert” was transferring some of my 401K, and neglected to tell me about a huge service fee. I tried in vain to get out of the deal, but the company didn’t care, my employer didn’t care, and no lawyer cared. It seemed cut and dry that she had not provided adequate disclosure, but the rotten system always wins. And so she got her lucrative commission. Think of how easy it is to swindle those who haven’t written ten fantastic books.

But while all of us must contend with the “dog eat dog” nature of our world, in recent years we’ve seen a meteoric rise in “victims” who have been victimized by nothing, and are instead virtue signaling in search of fame and fortune. Certainly, the whole “racism” crowd alone wastes the time of everyone with their endless claims of victimhood. Black celebrities worth millions comparing themselves to their sharecropper ancestors. Holding Blacks accountable for their behavior, like everyone else, compared to being ordered to the back of the bus. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, perhaps the most ridiculous of all the loud, Black “representatives” in Congress, recently chastised her White colleagues for appropriating the word “oppressed,” yelling that they hadn’t been “dragged all the way across an ocean.” Crockett makes $174,000 annually. No one ever dragged her, or any living Black, across an ocean.

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