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The Absolute State of the Victimhood Olympics

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The modern social justice wave that hit our civilization some 20 years ago billed itself as a movement to elevate those who were "oppressed" and "marginalized," but in reality, it was just a way for people to claim the same moral currency that some minority groups had. The black community had, at that point, been established by the Democrat Party and various activist groups as a community victimized by everything around it, and others looked at that and wanted in on the social benefits the black community was getting. 

Suddenly, communities were claiming victimhood Left and Right, and thanks to something that arrived on the scene called "intersectional feminism," everyone who wasn't a straight white male was an oppressed group that needed to be unequally compensated to be equal. 

It was a cultural moment that you can still see the echoes of today. DEI was birthed from it, as was the transgender movement, radicalism in school districts, and the current state of Hollywood. 

But the issue is that the social justice movement didn't elevate anybody, because it encouraged what was effectively a race to the bottom. Jockeying for position of who the most oppressed in our civilization was wasn't done by groups any longer; it was done by individuals. If you were a woman, you had an automatic position on the victimhood pedestal, but if you were white and straight, you were still pretty "privileged."

But if you were a gender-fluid white person who was neurodivergent, was in a lesbian relationship with a transgender woman, and had multiple mental illnesses with two abortions to your name, well... then you just earned yourself a position in the winner's circle. Now that you're there, you have to stay there by continuously reminding people how bad of a hand you got dealt by life, even if it means lashing out like a toddler at the mere suggestion that anything is your fault. 

Get violent if you have to! It could lead to an arrest, and that means you can claim you were abused and probably sexually harassed by police! It's a win!


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But now, this victimhood scramble has gotten so ridiculous and pathetic that one has to grasp at any straws they can to claim the smallest crumb. I was watching a Caleb Hammer clip (honestly, I can't get enough of them), and you can see him losing his mind on a nose-ringed, hair-dyed she/they who was trying to claim that her partner making moves on her during their relationship, and stopping when asked to stop, is sexual assault. 

If you had to go back and read that because it was confusing, I don't blame you. 

This girl tried to claim her girlfriend sexually assaulted her for attempting to make a move on her while in a committed relationship, and stopped when asked, and that is apparently still sexual assault. 

To be clear, this girl spends some of the podcast telling Caleb she's formerly a promiscuous person who had sex with at least 40 people in college. She goes on Tinder dates in new cities, leads people to believe sex is in their future, then denies them and calls them creeps for it. 

So, Hammer's crashout is entirely warranted here. 

Now, whether you agree with the modern sex culture is irrelevant here. Yes, it would be better if sex took a backseat until after marriage and both sexes learned to keep their hands to themselves until committed, but what I want to focus on here is the extremes to which this woman is going to try and claim victim points. 

She puts herself into situations where expectations are more likely to pop up, only to deny them. Setting expectations only to rip them away is nasty enough in and of itself, but going on to label someone as having been predatory toward her for even having those expectations in the first place is a step beyond sanity. 

To strip this down to its bare bones, this woman is playing a victim card she gave herself by trapping others in situations she built. She's not waiting to suffer actual victimization; she's going to craft situations where she can use the "believe all women" trope as a sword and shield. 

That's how desperate the social justice warriors are to reach the bottom of the victimhood pit, and it should be a wake-up call to everyone watching. 

This is an ideology that will cause you to do ridiculous things to gain a moral currency that is swiftly depreciating in value because of people like her, and she is legion. 

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