Hey, Over Here, Look at Me—I’m Blaming the Victim!

Hey, Over Here, Look at Me—I’m Blaming the Victim!
Written by Don Feder
Saturday, March 18, 2006


Of all of brain-dead liberalism’s mind-numbing catchphrases, possibly the most inane is “That’s blaming the victim!” - variations on which include: “How dare you blame the victim” and “Oh, my God, he’s blaming the victim!”



The cliché rests on one of the pillars of modern liberalism - that actions, in fact, do not have consequences, and individuals bear no responsibility for their behavior.



It’s hard to say exactly when the phrase first came in vogue, or in what context, but liberals have gotten enough mileage out of it to circle the solar system several times.



The formula can be applied to any situation where it’s politically convenient to deny personal responsibility, including:



Welfare - From time to time, conservatives have suggested that if young women from the inner city don’t want to end up dependent on taxpayers, it is well for them not to get pregnant at 15 by love-em-and-leave-em lotharios. “You’re blaming the victims,” self-styled welfare advocates wail. “It’s society’s fault that there’s a shortage of CEO positions for single mothers who are junior-high dropouts.”



AIDS - During the epidemic of the 1980s, when horrible homophobes observed that the individual who was HIV positive after years of unprotected anal sex really didn’t qualify as a victim, we were almost tarred-and-feathered. The gay lobby managed to raise AIDS patients to the status of holy relics. Suggesting that promiscuous, high-risk sodomy has consequences became sacrilege.



The Homeless - Formerly called bums, this is a sanctified victim group whose existence we were totally unaware of prior to the Reagan presidency. Suddenly, there they were - sleeping in doorways, defecating in public and annoying passersby with incessant demands for alms. To suggest that most of these unfortunates were alcoholics or addicts, and no one forced them to become chemically/Thunderbird dependent (others were mentally ill and on the streets thanks to liberalism’s last compassion crusade - de-institutionalization), was condemned as blaming the victim.

More @ http://tinyurl.com/lkgwv ChronWatch

Fairly long article and I suggest reading it in its entirety.

IMO, the Left doesn't give a fig for AIDS victims, the homeless, women's right, etc. The Left only pretends to care by pandering to these wrongheaded causes in order to obtain votes and you guessed it 'money'! If the Left really cared about any of their so called 'causes' they would send their children to inner city schools, have the AIDS clinics open in their neighborhoods and so on. However you will notice that does not happen.