Most gay men have realised that the Oppressed Victimhood party is totally over

17 April 2010

Some of my best friends are gay — but now I can go one better than that: one of them is HIV positive.

Of course, I understand why these people do it. It’s a tough, competitive world and if pleading victimhood can give you that extra edge, well, why not? Also, let’s be honest, it can be tremendously good fun working oneself up into a lather of indignation over some perceived slight — and what is more satisfying than doing so on behalf not merely of yourself, but of the entire black/gay/Jewish/disabled/female/Muslim ‘community’?

The problem is that when you play this game, you are not only undermining your own cause — think, for example, of how much funnier black comedians are when they don’t project guilt-trip vibes about their skin colour: Chris Rock, say, or Reginald D. Hunter — but you are also contributing to the moral and intellectual degeneracy of the broader culture. You are endorsing a bizarre, sick value system which rewards people not for their strengths but for how useless and feeble and needy and bitter they can prove themselves to be.

This is why my HIV-positive gay friend, despite our little joke at the beginning, would never dream of playing the victim card, even if that option were still available to him. He enjoys the hugely successful career he has today not because of his sexuality nor because his HIV status makes him probably unsackable, but simply because he’s hard-working, clever, talented and funny. You’d never know he was gay if you met him. Why should what he fondly calls his ‘perversion’ be any business of yours?

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Letemdangle

April 25th, 2010 5:11pm Report this comment

I'm writing from Canada. I was discussing the plight of the indigenous people here with a coworker. He felt guilty about Indians here who live in run down reserves and don't take care of themselves. There is a lot of this thinking going on here. Now many Natives are using this guilt to manipulate government and politics. We also have a lot of pseudo street people who pretend to be victims of circumstance to prey off the guilt of hard working citizens. Victomhood a growing industry!

KLH

April 30th, 2010 10:51pm Report this comment

James, go marry Melanie Phillips. You can have a 50% claim on all the victimhood out there then, unless you're too busy hanging out with gay men, of course :)

KLH

April 30th, 2010 10:55pm Report this comment

James, go marry Melanie Phillips, then you can have a 50% claim on all the victimhood out there, unless you're too busy hanging out with gay men, of course :)

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