The Comforting Addictiveness of Victimhood — Part One

The politics of victimhood have been playing patty cake with the Identitarian Right and Left for over a decade. A recovering victimhood addict explains why it's dangerous.

James Aubrey as Ralph and Hugh Edwards as Piggy in Lord of the Flies (1962)

This is the second of four Establishing Shot foundational pieces that are the pillars of my yearslong thinking about critical theory and the three heads of Woke Cerberus. Breaking down the politics of victimhood turned out to need more words and room to breathe than I initially t…