‘The effect of hijacked victimhood is to ‘delegitimize’ actual victims and redefine them as threatening. The powerful parties that hijack victimhood also cast their ‘political opposition as … morally polluted … [and] undermine a sense of legitimate opposition by presenting the opposition as malicious and evil victimizers…’’
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Proletarian Perspective · Hijacked VictimhoodA review and discussion of Hronešová & Kreiss’s paper Strategically Hijacking Victimhood (2024), published by Cambridge University Press. These notes continue the series on The Hijacking of Ant…