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In recent years , victimhood has been all the rage . Philosophers , writers , artists , academics , filmmakers , and playwrights have turned their victimhood into a tool of their trade and offered society profuse accounts of their lives as victims . Everyone seeks admission to the Israeli shrine of victimization , which keeps growing and expanding until it has attained the dimensions of the Tower of Babel , full of survivors who compete about who suffered more at the heavy hand of the repressive and obliterating enterprise of the Zionist / male / European / colonialist / Ashkenazi establishment , and so on . Phrases like “ steamroller of oppression , " “ control mechanisms , " “ obliteration , " “ product , " “ victimhood , " “ exclusion , " “ alienation , " “ the Other , " and “ the establishment " recur time and again in the discourse of victimization , like a mantra . Everyone adds the twig of his or her own persecution to the bonfire of victimization until the flames leap halfway t...
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