The Importance of "Victims with Attitude"

I had a minor Aha! moment over the weekend. It had something to do with the Hamas rocket attacks in Israel and the Associated Press's Sergeant Schultz moment when they said that they Knew Nothing about the Hamas offices in the same building as theirs.

In other words, what's with the left that they are so wedded to victim groups like the Palestinians?

And then I realized that for the Allyism thing -- oppressed peoples, their allies, and white oppressors -- to work the oppressed peoples can't just be sitting around like slaves on a plantation or touching their forelocks like the folk on Bathsheba Everdene's farm in Thomas Hardy's Wessex.

The victims need to have Attitude. They need to be protesting; they need to complain about the cops; they need to make "the boss" into a villain; they need to burn it all down. Otherwise the lefty process doesn't work.

So that's why our lefty friends have continued to radicalize blacks in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Revolution. That's why all good BDS believers think that the Palestinians are helpless victims and the Israelis are Literally Hitler.

Blacks are "victims with attitude." Palestinians are "victims with attitude." And so are all the Islamist communities in Europe and Britain. So are "trans" people.

You don't count as a registered "oppressed people™" unless you have "attitude."

Hispanics in the US need not apply. They are too busy getting on with their lives, urging their children to go to college, starting a small business, rising up the social ladder.

East Asians need not apply. They are Ice People. Not enough attitude. They just get on with life, working hard every day and helping family and other East Asians.

Brahmins? They seem to be auditioning in the US as Allies. Not victims, but leaders of the victims. Although, of course, Dalits, untouchables from India, need not apply.

When you think about it, the need for "victims with attitude" is essential. And really, not just for lefty Allyism, but for all politics.

The point is that, unless you are making a ruckus, and telling the ruling class that unless they trim their sails you very well might bust up the place, then you don't exist in the political firmament. Because politics is all about Us and Them, how We are the noblest, most innocent, most virtuous people since the Creation. And those Them, they are rascals and monsters, and if we don't take arm against that sea of troubles, we will get run over and demolished, maybe even annihilated.

The trick of our lefty friends is that they are the ruling class, but justify their power because they care about the helpless victims. Only, of course, they need to select as victims folks who are not just victims -- after all, slavery has existed since the dawn of time -- but  victims with attitude who are not going to take it any more.

And guess what: if the victims du jour don't have enough attitude we activists and advocates and Rules for Radicals chappies will teach you the rules of Attitude. We will lead you into a glorious future of perfect equality and justice. And hey, you deserve that 50-inch 4K TV down at Walmart!

Note that all politics needs this dynamics. It's just that populist nationalist politicians don't need a local source of "victims with attitude." They assert the innocence of the nation and then blame the Russkies or the Chinese or the Deep State for all our problems.

So, a candidate for president like Donald Trump represents himself as the leader of the Commoners against the overclass of the Deep State. He is almost playing the same game as the Allies of Allyism. Because, of course, in reality Donald Trump is part of the overclass and when he represents himself as a Commoner he is pulling a fast one. He is no more a Commoner than Bill Gates, billionaire son of an establishment lawyer.

So what is the difference?

Donald Trump advertises himself as the leader of the American Nation of Commoners against the Deep State: the leader of the whole nation of ordinary Americans. Anyone can be an ordinary American, even members of the overclass that have half a brain.

The liberal overclass represents itself as a avant-garde of Allies fighting for the oppressed peoples against the white oppressors.

So what's missing? In the Trump version, he is missing the fact that there are a lot of lower-class Americans who identify more with their class or ethnicity or religion than as American.

In the lefty Ally narrative, everything is a lie, including "and" and "the." The Allies are not the allies of the oppressed peoples. They are simple power-seekers using the oppressed peoples as their political foot-soldiers until they degrade into "human rubble." The oppressed peoples are not really that oppressed, except as being enslaved by the welfare state and its failed programs run by the Allies. The white oppressors are not really white oppressors: they don't have the power. In fact, like the LTC in the Space Force they can be fired for any crime against the narrative right here right now. 

So. The left's politics requires victims, but victims are no use unless and/or until they have attitude. Thus the importance of "Victims with Attitude."

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