Sentences with phrase «claim victimhood»

What would motivate a person to create a hoax and claim victimhood, like what's assumed in the Whole Foods cake case?

Do muslims realize that every time a cartoonist, publlisher or comedian is threatened by muslims, this is simply a means of implementing a defacto sharia while the muslim can claim victimhood.

There are at least two downsides of this tendency to claim victimhood.

For him the psychology of sin and its attendant need to claim victimhood («I'm depraved on account I'm deprived!»)

The basic problem, as I see it, is that people (in general) are too busy finger - pointing to take note of the ubiquity of biasing influences, and too busy claiming victimhood (and bad faith) to do what is necessary to control for their own biases.

Not exact matches

Their power and affluence are obvious, while their claim to victimhood is acknowledged as «a common sign of virtue.»

Perceived victimhood, like modern American Evangelicals claims, is based on lies.

The study suggests that a Western approach of claiming extremists are seeking world domination is misdirected, and instead should seek to counteract claims of victimhood.

In particular, those who have already established their victimhood are inevitably wary of new groups claiming the status who might thus dilute the political force of their own claims.

One of the reasons her crazy - lady act (she claims, for starters, that sonic waves were fed into her cell on Death Row to immobilize her thought processes) fails to convince is because Broomfield verifies, through an ethically debatable bait - and - switch, that Wuornos reverted to total victimhood in the absence of a recording device.

These three insights are especially important given the prevalence of «victimhood» in our culture - whining, self - pity, other - blaming and claims of personal blamelessness.