“Denying My Victimhood”

 

By John (the other John)

We hear this statement constantly from certain people, but what does this actually mean
to “deny victimhood” of somebody? And what are they victims of? It’s usually some alleged
“oppression” that other people allegedly experienced some time in the past, but somehow a link
is formed by an individual to an entire group who share similarities; hence making the entire
group a “victim” as a justification for both their individual failures and their group failures in
life. And they generally anoint the biggest loser within that group as a god-like hero. But how
does that work? Can some entire group share in other people’s victimhood? Can they be a
proxy to “victimhood”? Is this the reason for the failures of these people? The simple answer is
no.

What this really means is that an individual’s humiliation from one’s own nothingness
results in them seeking a group identity to share in their worthlessness, in which they create a
fake myth of superiority over their “oppressors”, with their pretend “victimhood” being the main
component of their identity, and thus gain collective power from this lie.

And what does it mean if some other person denies the “victimhood” of the group and of
the individuals within that group? Basically, it is a rejection of their lie or extreme
embellishment of the cause of their failures, which results in denying their attempts to gain
unwarranted power and money, in which any and all harm upon them is in all reality self-
inflicted (and/or generationally inflicted) by bad life choices; but instead of acknowledging their
own faults, they instead blame successful individuals by grouping them as a collective as being
“oppressors”.

What is significant here is that there is a direct causation (not a mere correlation) of fake
victimhood to fake herohood to fake evilhood. In other words, a total FRAUD! 1

1 The delusion of blaming other people for one’s own faults has occurred throughout human history. For instance:

a. Odyssey: Characters blame gods for their problems, but they never blame themselves for the
problems they created. (Odyssey 1:32-35)

b. Oedipus Rex: blamed others when the problem was in the mirror.

c. Roman Emperor Galerius: persecuted Christians by blaming them for all bad things such as
plagues, famine, Civil Wars; the rationale was because the Christians did not believe in the
Roman gods, their symbols, and their rituals.

d. Shakespeare said that people blame the sun and moon and stars, but never themselves. (King
Lear).

e. St Augustine said in the “City of God” that blaming others for one’s own faults has occurred many
times before.