Sentences with phrase «victimhood on»

We decided to turn the idea of victimhood on its head, and imagine new potential victims.

The desire to bestow victimhood on virtually all poor people in America was dramatically intensified in the 1960s by the fusion of liberalism's civil rights agenda with its welfare state agenda.

Not exact matches

I just know the character of human beings in general and logic dictates we have a world of drama queens ready to have the spotlight on them for their victimhood.

Mark Bauerlein's post on the rhetoric of anti-discrimination points clearly to the problem which traditionalists face: In a world where ethics is aesthetics, the language of victimhood has become a subjective concept which is a potent weapon in the hands of the powerful.

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

Especially in the latter case but also in the former, however, it's not typical for whole neighborhoods to be targeted in fraudulent cases, as that is (a) a lot riskier than doing something to your own property both in terms of getting caught in the first place as well as the penalties you will incur, (b) makes you at most part of something apparently bigger and denies the fraudster of the unique victimhood they seek and (c) in the case of insurance fraud, involves damaging things you can't collect on.

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

This earthly victimhood of Jesus is achieved in the heavenly victimhood which permits the believer, in an atmosphere of faith - trust, to look on the Eucharistic Christ and see in him the result of faith - trust in God brought to fulfilment by God's gift of the resurrection.

I think equality requires that we treat women in principle as on the same level in the spirit of» coworkers» and in that sense I perceive it as an elevation of status from that of victimhood.

Or the temptation is to gorge ourselves on sorrow and anger and victimhood, to fill our hearts and minds only with the tales of hate and evil and horror, until we forget the beauty and peace and justice growing and rising like yeast among us.

Tana December 7, 2011 5:29 pm ------ Tana, I can't speak for Sam, but for me and my experiences, that is before I became a Christian at 33, then later became a pastor at 50, and now a pastor for 14 years, I have seen and see now untold numbers of people who hang on to the victimhood with a tight grip.

The effectiveness of the politics of victimhood depends on the acceptance of the belief that victims» welfare is decisively dependent on the political rectification of their collective grievances.

As a self - proclaimed persecuted minority, the sexual revolutionaries enjoy the greatest unchecked privilege of our time, that of identity victimhood, with a monopoly on the positive language of love and freedom.

After, all appeared quiet on the Biafra front — until 2012, when the late Chinua Achebe released his swan song, There was a Country, a long tale of one - sided victimhood and suppressed bitterness, which would appear to have triggered the present neo-Biafra ferment.

I, Tonya, on the other hand, feels like it belongs to the current moment, exploring as it does hidden abuses of power, the links between various forms of toxic masculinity, and the messiness of victimhood.

Denis and co-writer Christine Angot have more on their minds than passive victimhood.

What is more, once Vera has been arrested, her mute victimhood borders on catatonia — and even if this is supposed to reflect the powerlessness of women, or of the «lower orders», before the legal apparatuses of the Establishment, it makes the film's second half seem to drag, carried as it is purely by pathos without the accompanying support of drama.

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.

Maria's sense of victimhood caused her to lash out and fabricate convenient truths; she could blame Brando for all hardships, from being on welfare and food stamps to losing things.

So what do games that casually rely on depictions of female victimhood tell us about women vis - a-vis their place in society?

-- Ajay Kurian from The Ballet of White Victimhood: On Jordan Wolfson, Petroushka, and Donald Trump empowering and unapologetic representations of Latin @x culture informed by the feminist and decolonial aesthetic traditions of the Americas

The Life and Legacy of Ana Mendieta «To turn a dead woman into a martyr is to turn her story into your own» says Rosanna Mclaughlin on what it means to coopt the life of an artist for a social cause, the fetishisation of female victimhood and the artworld's complicity in presenting the «ideal woman artist as dead or close to dying».

The exhibition dealt with the incestuous practice established in certain African tribes but also elaborates on the concept of victimhood and the universality of the issue.

What's funny is that while tribe members on both sides blame the «mainstream media» for their victimhood, no one actually has validated evidence to quantify the influence of the media:

It seems to me that some combatants on both sides are more interested in vindicating their sense of victimhood than almost anything else.

It is the textbook on how they rewrite history — the sound chamber of liberal denunciations, their phony victimhood as they demean and oppress their enemies, their false imputation of dishonesty to their opponents, their legalization of every policy dispute, their ability to engage in lock - step shouting campaigns, and the black motives concealed by their endless cacophony.

You only have to look at the comments of the PRI piece to see how quickly any discussion of cooperation descends into accusations of collaboration on one side, and false victimhood and corruption on the other.

While posting marathon finish times on Facebook seems ludicrous when that same plaintiff aspires to establish bed - ridden victimhood, this type of thing happens a fair bit.

and innocent victimhood («Why is he always picking on me?»).

It's crucial that during this time you avoid thoughts of righteous indignation («I don't have to take this anymore») and innocent victimhood («Why is he always picking on me?»).

Avoid thoughts of righteous indignation («I don't have to take this anymore») and innocent victimhood» («Why is he always picking on me?»).

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