{"id":12436,"date":"2024-06-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/holistic.news\/en\/?p=12436"},"modified":"2025-01-28T12:31:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T11:31:01","slug":"excessive-focus-on-hurt-and-detecting-the-slightest-signs-of-aversion-victimhood-culture-flourishes-thanks-to-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holistic.news\/en\/excessive-focus-on-hurt-and-detecting-the-slightest-signs-of-aversion-victimhood-culture-flourishes-thanks-to-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody Is Getting Offended. Victimhood Culture and Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Discussing victimhood culture, we navigate the map of the dispute between leftist and conservative groups. A heated debate was sparked by the 2018 book by American sociologists Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning, The Rise of Victimhood Culture<\/em>. In the work of these researchers, the term \u201cvictimhood culture\u201d is seen as unequivocally pejorative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The authors define it as a set of actions aimed at highlighting the aspect of being a victim in order to gain specific gratifications, such as external support or a certain higher moral status. Consequently, there is a temptation to view oneself as a victim even in situations where it is unnecessary or unjustified<\/p>\n\u2013 claims Piekutowski.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, political science professor Wilfred Reilly, in his book Hate Crime Hoax<\/em>, analyzed 346 allegations of so-called hate crimes and determined that less than one-third of them were authentic. Most of the fabricated incidents supposedly took place on American university campuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We recommend:<\/strong> Violence: A Daily Reality for Many Children<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victimhood Culture and Social Ostracism<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jarema Piekutowski addresses the arguments from the other side of the ideological spectrum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to the left, it is not about wrongly attributing oneself the status of a victim, but to reveal who truly is a victim of violence and trauma and to surround such a person with social support and to punish the guilty<\/p>\n\u2013 says the sociologist.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The method of punishment for various kinds of discrimination is not about seeking justice legally but excluding the \u201cperpetrator\u201d from public discourse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s about a general consensus that they are unworthy of even a handshake. We\u2019re talking about a form of social ostracism. Critics of this approach point out a problem: when portraying oneself as a victim is exaggerated, it often involves false or greatly exaggerated accusations, such as so-called microaggressions. Then, individuals who are not guilty of actual violence are also excluded from social life, simply for exercising their right to free speech<\/p>\n\u2013 emphasizes the researcher.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The issue is that a microaggression \u2013 using an offensive term or inappropriate behavior towards individuals from historically marginalized groups \u2013 does not have to be intentional by definition. The assessment of the offense is based on the subjective feelings of the person allegedly discriminated against. This leads to absurd situations, like calling it violence to ask a foreigner to say a few words in their native language, or so-called cultural appropriation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let\u2019s discuss a situation where \u2018privileged individuals\u2019 incorporate some customs of ethnic minorities into their culture, for example, a white woman getting dreadlocks. If I, in the presence of a person from Silesia, used the term \u2018gizdy piero\u0144skie\u2019 towards someone, it could be considered a microaggression by them. Because he, as a Silesian with deep ancestral roots, has the right to be offended by me using his language<\/p>\n\u2013 illustrates Piekutowski.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly, the choice of the term \u201cvictimhood\u201d by Campbell and Manning was questioned and criticized as a microaggression in itself by representatives of leftist circles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Honor, Dignity, and Victimhood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The authors of The Rise of Victimhood Culture<\/em> identify three stages in the development of Western civilization. The first is the culture of honor, which proclaims that failing to respond to any insult or humiliation is synonymous with the loss of honor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this culture, blame was attributed to the victim. If someone was harmed and did not retaliate, it was their fault. This mindset is well expressed in a passage from William Wharton\u2019s novel Birdy<\/em>, where a character \u2013 a Sicilian by birth \u2013 says that if someone in Sicily rapes a man\u2019s wife, even if she defended herself, she will never be the same to her husband as before<\/p>\n\u2013 comments the sociologist.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

However, in the second half of the 19th century, as our civilization began to move away from unnecessary violence, the culture of honor transformed into a culture of dignity. This culture told us that dignity is something that cannot be taken away from a person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This culture\u2019s characteristic is perfectly illustrated by the Anglo-Saxon saying: \u201cSticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.\u201d And if I\u2019m bothered that someone uses offensive statements towards me, I can seek solutions to my problem in legal institutions. As we firmly settled in this culture of dignity, we stopped attaching so much importance to the possible loss of honor<\/p>\n\u2013 explains Piekutowski.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

American researchers argue that historically the third phase is the spreading culture of victimhood in Western countries, where we assign ourselves the moral status of victims, thereby appealing for support on social media and the exclusion of alleged perpetrators from social life. However, the Polish sociologist has his thesis. According to him, the culture of victimhood is a form of return to the culture of honor, except for the element of attributing blame to the victim:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cToday, words are taken very seriously. Sensitivity to one\u2019s dignity or honor is returning, but here the victim gains a high moral status. The most concerning aspect is the loss of self-distance. Because behind all this lies the assumption that humans are fragile and words can destroy them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

We recommend:<\/strong> Where Are the Limits of Forgiveness? To Forgive Does not Mean to Forget<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victimhood Culture: Empathy or Anomie?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

According to Piekutowski, movements associated with this culture arose in response to the widespread verbal violence on the internet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Social media allows people to hurt each other. Nowadays, we are dealing with a massive form of aggression, which is cyberbullying. And we know that pursuing one\u2019s claims legally in such matters is hardly possible or worthwhile.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Thus, a positive aspect of the development of victim culture could be greater empathy towards people facing real violence online. And the vision of potential ostracism may serve as a deterrent against articulating harmful content. However, the researcher claims that the most alarming effect of the flourishing of such an ideology is leading to social disorder, defined by one of the fathers of sociology, \u00c9mile Durkheim, as \u201canomie\u201d. It refers to a situation in society where there is lasting instability:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It causes people to break down psychologically and start fighting among themselves even more. Therefore, it brings various disasters. And the more mutual aversion, hatred, and offense there is in society, not only does it make our lives miserable, but in such a state of decay within the state, we can become easy prey for external enemies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Piekutowski is troubled by the notion of a world where people, who could talk and cooperate with each other, instead offend one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Studies show that it\u2019s easiest to hurt someone who already has a low opinion of themselves. So, it would be better to work on strengthening a healthy sense of self-worth or dignity rather than searching for violence everywhere, even where it does not exist. I would refer to the rules of the culture of dignity, which shows that virtue is resilience to various kinds of words<\/p>\n\u2013 concludes the researcher.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Translation: Klaudia Tarasiewicz<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victim culture is inherently linked to the broader phenomenon of \u201cwoke\u201d culture, which involves a special sensitivity to various kinds of discrimination and even potentially possible \u201churts\u201d in social situations. Sociologists Jarema Piekutowski and Dominika Tworek shed light on this phenomenon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":12437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[726,988,989,987],"class_list":["post-12436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanism","tag-culture","tag-hurt","tag-victim","tag-vitimhood"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nVictimhood Culture: How Empathy Leads to Oversensitivity<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Victimhood culture, social media, and empathy. 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