Victimhood, The Abandonment Of Critical Thinking, And The Reign Of Feelings Over Reason

Woke ideology revolves around the concepts of identity and power. It is a belief system in which the orthodox Marxist notion of class struggle has been translated into the identity group's struggle for power.

As such, while for traditional Marxists the oppressor–oppressed distinction was based on economic consideration, the postmodern left adapted this dichotomy into the societal oppressions supposedly inherent to Western societies (racism, sexism etc) born from prejudices and power held by the so-called dominant identity: white, heterosexual, Christian men.

Subsequently, in opposition to this identity deemed oppressive, individuals or groups have culturally forged an identity of “oppressed”, around the concept of victim, in which everything that structures a person is subject to domination: race, sex, sexuality, etc.

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This victimhood mentality was a benefaction for the progressive left who seized the opportunity to recruit a new constituency via the manipulation of emotion. Similarly to the colonial paternalists in the 19^th, those cultural elites presented themselves as the protectors of the minorities, eternal victims of a hostile society. 

They have taken to the pinnacle the concept of determinism; the idea that in virtue of an illegitimate and abstract pseudo-authority in power (the patriarchy, white supremacy, etc.) generating systemic discrimination, individuals identified as victims cannot be held accountable for their failures in life (no personal agency).

Accordingly, victimhood entails the construction of a theoretical evil – vague, ill-defined, indeterminate oppression – that does not need to be factual. Whereas the civil rights movements demanded specific changes in the legislation, victimhood is not the quest for tangible constitutional modification but symbolic recognition (memorial laws), and sometimes monetary reparations and compensations. 

That is why some happily revel in the stature of victims and let the progressive left infantilize them, as it offers some privileges and rewards. Being a victim became a trophy status, a spectacle for narcissist individuals seeking attention and striving to appear different, unique, and special. 

Victimhood is a means to reign over society by weaponizing suffering, a strategy to feel superior, a manner to acquire effortlessly power in reason of a supposed oppression. For instance, although non-discrimination was elevated as an absolute in virtue of apex egalitarianism in the West, “positive discrimination” came as a response to the victimhood mentality.

Above all, the concept of victim allows to absolve individuals of any responsibilities for their actions. Victimhood is a fatalism, a vision of the world in which the social determines existence instead of the conscience, in which people are modeling clay in the hands of destiny.

It is a negation of personal accountability and serves as an exculpatory function permitting one to deflect criticisms and never question oneself. Victimhood paved the way for the “excuse culture”, an apologetic attitude towards criminality on the grounds of socioeconomic reasons (poverty, unemployment, racism, etc.). 

The “excuse culture” materializes in dubious statistic associations supposed to prove that oppressive social structures institutionalize discrimination. As such, the over-representation of certain communities in crime is apparently a consequence of the repressive system (e.g. systemic racism) rather than individual (mis) deeds i.e. criminality is a behavior solely created by social condition. 

In this mindset, the law is the expression of the oppressive authority. If a specific group in society is disproportionally represented in crimes, it is first and foremost due to the prejudices of the institutions and a power (police) that unfairly persecutes oppressed victims. 

It is the reduction of the concept of justice to social justice i.e. political struggle and egalitarian ideals. The law being an expression of the dominant class power over the “victims”, criminality is therefore understood as emancipation against oppression: it is moral to take revenge against a bigoted society.

Consequently, to punish a victim is to be an oppressor, to sanction someone who already suffers from prejudices. Accordingly, judges must take into consideration the position of individuals on a mythical scale of discrimination before forming an opinion or conclusion about a case. We dress the executioners as the victims and ask entire communities to stand behind them instead of condemning their behavior. Although we are all equal before the law, those identified as societal victims are more equal than others.

Victimhood is a pure nihilism promising freedom without responsibility instead of encouraging virtue by mastering something through disciplined effort. It locked up individuals in an identity that supposedly determined their lives, maintain groups and communities into castes from which they would never be able to escape allowing the bourgeoisie to protect its places. The condescension of the liberal left who take offense from the outset, in the name of others, for an alleged prejudice committed by an abstract repressive authority preserves the victim mentality.

For instance, under the pretense that education is oppressive, ignorance is applauded. While the classical culture is demonized, and deemed too white, destructive subcultures are promoted, such as gangsta rap, glorifying tribalism, communitarianism, and the disintegration of common decency by normalizing marginal and unethical values and attitudes. Gansta rap exemplifies the celebration of immoralities instead of scientific or academic achievement. Criminals are amalgamated into an entire community and a community is amalgamated into criminals.

And so, due to systemic racism, some groups who even thanks to instruction would never rise socially, are allegedly right to resort to crime. Yet, East Asians in the US, who do not fall for this narrative, are overly represented in higher curriculum. 

As per the individuals or groups identified as oppressors, they are denied the legitimacy of the present position that any form of oppression can exercise against them as they (supposedly) hold the power in society e.g. racism against white people does not exist because it is not systemic.

Victimhood is thereby a self-absorbed mentality that focuses intensely on that sense of being oppressed in which your peers are deemed to be inconsequential. It is a resentful ideology legitimizing taking (violent) actions against those individuals or groups identified as oppressors. Those whose culture and history are reduced to a series of atrocious events (racism, colonization, slavery, etc.).

As an “oppressor”, the only way to climb the societal ladder, to claim the victim privileges, is to adopt the strategy of “self-victimization”, the social construction of a victim identity. This can take the form of transracialism – such as Rachel Dolezal a white girl who affirmed being African American and became a prominent face of the Black Lives Matter movement – transgenderism, non binarism or the appropriation of a “victim” history such as Andrea Smith, the American professor who pretended to be Cherokee.

Forging an identity of victim gives the right to speak from lived experience, appeals to feelings rather than facts, and evidence from an expert voice. Fundamentally, victimhood has turned our societies into lachrymocracies i.e. governance and public opinion guided by emotions and pathos.

For that reason, the victim mentality frames a negative outlook on life. It is the constant and active search for discrimination in every situation to confirm the oppression as illustrated in an experiment conducted by Robert Kleck in Dartmouth University in which participants wrongly believing they were wearing make-up scars overwhelmingly reported ill-mannered interactions with other people.

The rise of victimized communitarianism has destroyed national cohesion. It aggravated the polarization and brought civil war among masses while safeguarding the privileges of the elites. Victimhood is the reign of feelings over reason, the abandonment of intellect and critical thinking. It creates lonely, neurotic, depressed individuals, trapped in their class, who will ultimately find comfort in the compulsive consumption of futile standardized products.