Tuesday, September 15, 2015

The Emerging Victimhood Culture is Scary

The Emerging Victimhood Culture is Scary | Intellectual Takeout:
By now you’ve most likely heard about the increasingly sanitized, PC culture that is coming to predominate on college campuses. 
And on a weekly basis you witness a public figure self-immolate in an attempt to quell the frenzied demand of a mob for an apology.
So what’s going on?
A recent scholarly paper from Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning—“Microaggression and Moral Cultures”—claims these trends are indicative of the emergence of a “victimhood culture” in America.
...So, basically, members of the victimhood culture that is emerging in America operate within a relatively privileged and sheltered environment and try to solve conflicts by tattling to authority figures so that they may gloat over their perceived aggressors...

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