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The political class the author belongs to (left-leaning intellectuals) may not have created this trend, but they did popularize it. It’s obvious that the author and his ilk believe that only people who are suffering have value or deserve to have opinions. Of course sociopaths are going to try and appear like they are suffering in response. Sleep in the bed you helped make, Adam.

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Pretty rich to say that when this whole drama is caused by Ackman launching a great war on academia under the pretense of weeding out plagiarism, and then throwing a hissy fit when shown his academic of a wife has done worse than Claudine Gay.

Sleep in the king-sized bed you helped make, Bill.

I don’t give a single flying fuck about Bill Ackerman or his wife, they can burn in the fires of public opinion as well for all I care. The article is complaining that people are acting like victims when the political left made victimization a core tenet of identity politics. So maybe Bill Ackerman wouldn’t be acting in such an embarrassing manner if they hadn’t done that.

It's third wave feminism, when the word emancipation was replaced by the very liberal and individualistic 'empowerment', and the liberal captation of postmarxism that created identity politics.

Saying 'the left created identity politics' is quite antinomic. Identity and individuality are clearly not core left wing values.

Zionists have been using victimization as a core tenet to advance their agenda for decades. To say this started with the “political left” is simply not true.

The left didn't make victimization a core tenet of identity politics. The left made power differences et abuse of power the core tenet of its politics - and the right caricaturize it as only "playing" the victim - the extreme version being the constant accusations of "crisis actors" lobbed by Alex Jones and co.

This is a gross deformation/strawman argumentation.

You called me out for strawmanning, used the most extreme and atypical person you could think of in your argument (Alex Jones) in a way that only tenuously makes sense, while simultaneously admitting that your example is extreme?

Maybe you should have replied with a third attempt at something coherent. Third times the charm, as they say

Alex Jones is not "the most extreme and atypical person" on the right, he is saying openly what the right thinks quietly: https://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/02/politics/donald-trump-pra... https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-jr-likes-conspira...

Google "the lost cause", the "war on Christmas", "white flight"...

The right has played the victim card for decades. It's their core tenet.

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