The Comforting Addictiveness of Victimhood — Part Two
Is it really oppression, or is it more a fight to keep historical narratives that are no longer relevant alive in the present?
Even though I firmly reject the modern antiracist gaze on the White experience, Black victimhood is nonetheless a deeply sensitive subject for a White man to write about, even if he’s a gay man of a certain age and therefore a member of a far more oppressed group — it isn’t seen that way, for reasons I explain in this piece.
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