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I was not surprised. This is a product of the incentive structure on the LEFT.
The rise of self inflicted wounds is fostered by a Cultural Marxist Left/Identity Politics rubric. The left grants special status to those that can demonstrate victim-hood/claim victim status. And if you don't have such a status, then you are told to be silent. Only the victim is to be validated and "heard".
So. the only way for the left to hear a follower/acolyte is for that Left-Wing follower to put forth their own victim bona fides and to let that be tallied on the Victim Olympics scale. The teen in this particular incident was likely trying to foster or revive the mantle of Jewish victim-hood, something he must have seen as being of gradually lowering status. The incorporation of Muslims into the Left's victim Olympics is, of course, the reason for this victimhood inflation but the Left is not about to question Muslims false status anytime soon.
But is this a particularly "Jewish" thing? No. It is only because a sizable slice of the intellectual weight of American Jews has been captured by the immoral and failed paradigm of Identity Politics and Cultural Marxism. The deeper any sub population in the West advances in the Liberal Arts-academic circles, the greater the risk of being sucked into this misguided shortcut to making moral evaluations. Even Asian academics are being drawn in in significant numbers.
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I was not surprised. This is a product of the incentive structure on the LEFT.
The rise of self inflicted wounds is fostered by a Cultural Marxist Left/Identity Politics rubric. The left grants special status to those that can demonstrate victim-hood/claim victim status. And if you don't have such a status, then you are told to be silent. Only the victim is to be validated and "heard".
So. the only way for the left to hear a follower/acolyte is for that Left-Wing follower to put forth their own victim bona fides and to let that be tallied on the Victim Olympics scale. The teen in this particular incident was likely trying to foster or revive the mantle of Jewish victim-hood, something he must have seen as being of gradually lowering status. The incorporation of Muslims into the Left's victim Olympics is, of course, the reason for this victimhood inflation but the Left is not about to question Muslims false status anytime soon.
But is this a particularly "Jewish" thing? No. It is only because a sizable slice of the intellectual weight of American Jews has been captured by the immoral and failed paradigm of Identity Politics and Cultural Marxism. The deeper any sub population in the West advances in the Liberal Arts-academic circles, the greater the risk of being sucked into this misguided shortcut to making moral evaluations. Even Asian academics are being drawn in in significant numbers.