Both groups justify violence
through victimhood.
Not exact matches
• Consequent to the notion of disaster, and fueled by MacIntyre's polemicism, there is a streak of
victimhood running
through MacIntyre's work, and especially
through the attitudes of his adherents — «we poor moderns» and such.
The voracious reductionism that undergirds the politics of
victimhood can vindicate neither the honor of the poor nor the government's redress of their grievances
through the endless rearrangement of social advantages and conditions.
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.
VACCA conceives of cultural safety as re-claiming cultural norms and creating environments where Aboriginal people transition; first from
victimhood to survivors of oppression,
through to seeing themselves and their communities as achievers and contributors.