109% of population soon to be oppressed
Wullu @ Mon Oct 09, 2006 4:45 pm
This is from the UK but it can't be a lot different here in this day and age.
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The spread of a victim culture now means that more than seven out of ten people claim they are oppressed.
Huge chunks of the population have been racing to join the ranks of the officially disadvantaged, a report found.
Belonging to a victim group means the opportunity of financial gain and promotion at work, and the chance to denounce enemies to police or in the courts.
The ranks of those given special rights because of their victimhood have now swelled so that they outnumber their alleged oppressors.
The analysis by criminologist Dr David Green said that Government recognised victim groups now take in 73 per cent of the population.
Official victims, all with their own state apparatus to advance their claims and prosecute their enemies, include all women, all ethnic minority members, and all disabled people. They are represented by the Equal Opportunities Commission, the Commission for Racial Equality, and the Disability Rights Commission.
However, from next year two more big groups will be added to the list of victims.
The new Commission for Equality and Human Rights will have powers to act for pensioners and for homosexuals, bringing the numbers of official victims to more than seven out of ten of the population.
But Dr Green said victim culture had now become so popular that, if the claims of some victim groups are taken seriously, there are more victims than people in the country.
He said this is because of 'multiple discrimination', in which some people are said to be victims on more than one count.
So gay lobby group Stonewall, for example, says that a black gay man experiences prejudice from blacks because he is gay, from gays because he is black, as well as racism and homophobia from everyone else.
On this reckoning, the number of victims amounts to 109 per cent of the population, Dr Green said.
In his report, We're (Nearly) All Victims Now, published by the Civitas think tank, he said: 'The political-recognised victim status described by this list of isms and phobias has begun to do lasting harm to our liberal culture.'
'Groups who have been politically recognised as victims are starting to use their power to silence people who have had the cheek to criticise them.'
Dr Green added: 'Modern victim groups create entrenched social divisions by defining opponents as oppressors who not only must be defeated by the state, but silenced by the state.'
He cited the term Islamophobia as a word intended to demonise opponents. 'The pseudo-psychiatric term Islamophobia is a statement that any criticism of Muslims is evidence of clinical pathology,' Dr Green said.
'Yet the label is often attached to valid criticisms of particular Muslims whose behaviour has laid them open to legitimate censure.'
The report said that members of victim groups stand to win advantages at work - for example middle class women who demand promotions they have not earned on the grounds of the claim that women were discriminated against in the past.
Recognised victims are also in a strong position to win compensation from courts and tribunals.
They can also call the police to act against their critics.
The report referred to the case of Lynette Burrows, the writer warned by the Metropolitan Police that she had been reported as causing a homophobic incident after she gave a BBC radio interview in which she questioned whether children always benefit from having gay adoptive parents.
Dr Green said the law means that murdering members of victim groups is now more serious than murdering anyone else.
The killers of Jody Dobrowski, a gay barman murdered on Clapham Common, were jailed for 28 years last autumn - but the trial judge said their sentence would have been halved if they had not been motivated by dislike of the victim's sexuality.
Huge chunks of the population have been racing to join the ranks of the officially disadvantaged, a report found.
Belonging to a victim group means the opportunity of financial gain and promotion at work, and the chance to denounce enemies to police or in the courts.
The ranks of those given special rights because of their victimhood have now swelled so that they outnumber their alleged oppressors.
The analysis by criminologist Dr David Green said that Government recognised victim groups now take in 73 per cent of the population.
Official victims, all with their own state apparatus to advance their claims and prosecute their enemies, include all women, all ethnic minority members, and all disabled people. They are represented by the Equal Opportunities Commission, the Commission for Racial Equality, and the Disability Rights Commission.
However, from next year two more big groups will be added to the list of victims.
The new Commission for Equality and Human Rights will have powers to act for pensioners and for homosexuals, bringing the numbers of official victims to more than seven out of ten of the population.
But Dr Green said victim culture had now become so popular that, if the claims of some victim groups are taken seriously, there are more victims than people in the country.
He said this is because of 'multiple discrimination', in which some people are said to be victims on more than one count.
So gay lobby group Stonewall, for example, says that a black gay man experiences prejudice from blacks because he is gay, from gays because he is black, as well as racism and homophobia from everyone else.
On this reckoning, the number of victims amounts to 109 per cent of the population, Dr Green said.
In his report, We're (Nearly) All Victims Now, published by the Civitas think tank, he said: 'The political-recognised victim status described by this list of isms and phobias has begun to do lasting harm to our liberal culture.'
'Groups who have been politically recognised as victims are starting to use their power to silence people who have had the cheek to criticise them.'
Dr Green added: 'Modern victim groups create entrenched social divisions by defining opponents as oppressors who not only must be defeated by the state, but silenced by the state.'
He cited the term Islamophobia as a word intended to demonise opponents. 'The pseudo-psychiatric term Islamophobia is a statement that any criticism of Muslims is evidence of clinical pathology,' Dr Green said.
'Yet the label is often attached to valid criticisms of particular Muslims whose behaviour has laid them open to legitimate censure.'
The report said that members of victim groups stand to win advantages at work - for example middle class women who demand promotions they have not earned on the grounds of the claim that women were discriminated against in the past.
Recognised victims are also in a strong position to win compensation from courts and tribunals.
They can also call the police to act against their critics.
The report referred to the case of Lynette Burrows, the writer warned by the Metropolitan Police that she had been reported as causing a homophobic incident after she gave a BBC radio interview in which she questioned whether children always benefit from having gay adoptive parents.
Dr Green said the law means that murdering members of victim groups is now more serious than murdering anyone else.
The killers of Jody Dobrowski, a gay barman murdered on Clapham Common, were jailed for 28 years last autumn - but the trial judge said their sentence would have been halved if they had not been motivated by dislike of the victim's sexuality.
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We had to hit critical mass eventually I guess.
GunPlumber @ Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:51 am
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Dr Green said the law means that murdering members of victim groups is now more serious than murdering anyone else.
Except when the murderer is a member of a "victim group". In which case, the murderer is deemed worthy of more leniency than a murderer who doesn't wallow in self-pity. It's become a better defense than "by reason of insanity": it doesn't carry an undesirable stigma and on the rare chance you get handed some "time"; you can rest assured that it will be in a facilty that was designed to cater to your 'special' needs.
dgthe3 @ Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:51 pm
I am a member of a victimised group because I have no disadvantage. As a result, I am not eligible for special compensation in any way.
Wullu @ Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:43 pm
GunPlumber GunPlumber:
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Dr Green said the law means that murdering members of victim groups is now more serious than murdering anyone else.
Except when the murderer is a member of a "victim group". In which case, the murderer is deemed worthy of more leniency than a murderer who doesn't wallow in self-pity. It's become a better defense than "by reason of insanity": it doesn't carry an undesirable stigma and on the rare chance you get handed some "time"; you can rest assured that it will be in a facilty that was designed to cater to your 'special' needs.
........and that is how they are working toward the 109% figure. Maybe there will be a special day when we reach 200%
Of course by then we will all neeed a score card to keep track of who is the most victimized in a given situation.
brotha @ Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:20 pm
bein' part of a "victim" group is soooooooooooo much better than bein' middle-class...white...employed...insured...
WTF is a victim group? does he mean "ethnics"? like "niggers".."spiks".."injuns".."dinks".."gooks"..or "rag-heads"? or brown people who complain about racism? or just people of color in general?
ah...WGAF!
Tricks @ Wed Oct 11, 2006 8:03 pm
brotha brotha:
WTF is a victim group? does he mean "ethnics"? like "niggers".."spiks".."injuns".."dinks".."gooks"..or "rag-heads"? or brown people who complain about racism? or just people of color in general?
:roll: Read it, it says that people are claiming to be victims. Whatever their reason may be.
brotha @ Wed Oct 11, 2006 8:35 pm
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Read it, it says that people are claiming to be victims. Whatever their reason may be.
yeah hes also sayin bein' part of a "victim group" is soooo much better than bein' advantaged? and that all people suffering prejudice are like a mafia-cum-lynch mob out to get people...and that minorities have it easy ie are sponging of white people...
Tricks @ Wed Oct 11, 2006 8:37 pm
brotha brotha:
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Read it, it says that people are claiming to be victims. Whatever their reason may be.
yeah hes also sayin bein' part of a "victim group" is soooo much better than bein' advantaged? and that all people suffering prejudice are like a mafia-cum-lynch mob out to get people...and that minorities have it easy ie are sponging of white people...
brotha @ Wed Oct 11, 2006 9:03 pm
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Which is entirely true. These people aren't suffering from prejudice. Do I have to pull up that old thread of a guy not getting a job because he was white?
Well who exactly are "these people" you are refering to? Coloreds? That is the language they use in the 1950s right? well anyway, no-one should suffer racial prejudice, but are you saying because one White person suffers discrimination that all people of ethnic minority backgrounds are making it all up? Its quite a leap!