Victimhood Culture

The Victims’ Race

Victimhood may confer ancient and effective advantages, but researchers are nonetheless alarmed by the scale of digital self-harm in adolescents, and the recent recourse to false accusations more generally.

Tomasz Witkowski

27 Aug 2021 · 10 min read

On Victimhood and Culture—A Reply to Aaron Hanna

The idea that whites were in the house while blacks were sweating in the fields despising them is comfortable to us today as we look upon the context as a whole and justly revile it.

John McWhorter

30 Jun 2021 · 5 min read

Quillette Podcast 29 – Coleman Hughes on an allegedly racist incident at Barnard College

Jonathan Kay talks to Coleman Hughes about his latest Quillette article, which concerns an allegedly racist incident at Barnard College. Coleman, who is an undergraduate at Columbia, doesn’t think the Barnard employees involved are guilty of racism.

Quillette / Coleman Hughes

23 Apr 2019 · 1 min read

Cowardice at Columbia

If you find it implausible that a progressive women’s college in the middle of New York City is enforcing de facto Jim Crow at the security gate, your skepticism is warranted.

Coleman Hughes

19 Apr 2019 · 7 min read

Hate Crime Hoaxes are More Common than You Think

Victimhood culture gives rise to hate crime hoaxes, then, because it makes them easier to pull off for the same reasons it makes them more lucrative.

Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning

22 Feb 2019 · 7 min read

The UK Labour Party and the System of Diversity

The Tribe is an articulate, scrupulously fair but nonetheless root-and-branch attack on the ‘system and administration of diversity’, not only in UK Labour but also in other British institutions, including the civil service and the BBC.

Helen Dale

6 Sep 2018 · 18 min read

Collision with Reality: What Depth Psychology Can Tell us About Victimhood Culture

Personal or collective attitudes that create an invitation to victimhood and infirmity can alter what we expect for ourselves.

Lisa Marchiano

27 Dec 2017 · 11 min read

On Privilege and Being Human

Our intellectual ascendency defined us as a species and is inextricably linked to our success and our ability to connect with one another.

Emma C Williams

19 Nov 2015 · 4 min read