(I found this blog, which I had written some time ago, and decided to go ahead and post it here.)
I was reading Widburg, who was writing about a young jewess that was shocked to be canceled for her political views, because it was leftists who are the ones supposed to be doing the canceling. The author called the young lady in question “self loathing,” but that was not my assessment. I felt she loved her own lies all too well.
Next, I read Spero’s article, and he voiced exactly what I had been thinking, and drew it out into excruciating detail. He says THEY consider themselves to be THE moral authority, these leftist Jews, but “right” and “wrong” are based on their own inner narrative, not THE transcendent Source. He used the term virtue signaling as if it was invented just for this type of person, the one who would betray their own blood just as long as they felt it made them look good.
Lastly, I heard from Geller. She seemed angry and confused and went on and on about it, how Jews used to fight for the little guy, but now social justice seemed to be only for the lbgtq crowd, or for those opposed to Jews. I certainly very much sympathized with her. I, too, have been angry a lot recently.
I have since read claims by two Jews that the Jews are THE political scapegoats. Their claims have some merit (although by sheer numbers, Christians are the lambs readied for slaughter).
If victimhood is made the source of political power because of a compassionate judeochristian society, then victimhood should NOT ALSO be the definition and source of morality as well. It’s like making a slave king. The standard would be coming from the very bottom, dredging the lowest expectations up, and placing them on the shoulders of all the rest of us, holding society hostage to the worst parts of human character. We would be conceding to the lowest common denominator, to those with whom we have no commonality. How can anyone excel, at anything, in such an environment?
When someone is a victim of suffering, he is not automatically endowed with the equivalent of a moral imperative. He might be in pain for the wrong reasons. He might be a psychopath. All sufferers are not equal. Some might not be capable of being rescued, or even want to be. If they were “saved” then they might lose the empowerment being a victim has given them, what they feel are entitlements to what they have received from others. One who has been brutalized and victimized, currently or historically, might have lost the ability to distinguish between what is legitimate oppression, and what is an organized drama of mental illness, or murderous plotting, when listening to someone else’s narrative. After all, not everyone who says that they are a victim, are in reality, any such thing.
