Two sociologists detail ‘The Rise of Victimhood Culture’ and how it’s used for social control
William Nardi - University of Massachusetts Boston •January 3, 2019
Professors offer possible solution too — tout the principles of ‘dignity culture’
In 2014, Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning, associate professors of sociology at Cal State Los Angeles and West Virginia University, respectively, published a scholarly article titled “Microaggression and Moral Cultures†that detailed the rise of a “victimhood culture.â€
Sure enough, a paper that discussed microaggressions in what many perceived as a negative light was denounced as — wait for it — a microaggression.
Critics took umbrage to their “victimhood†terminology, with one reader calling their paper “tenuous and capricious†and that it “is itself a microaggression,†actually “closer to a real aggression.â€
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