The problem with victimhood and mental health

Is the victimhood culture psychologically healthy?

I have been thinking about where the current focus on will ultimately take society as a whole. How do you run a successful society on the constant amplification of aggrieved difference between groups?

Microaggressions are sometimes used as a form of social control. Participants gain social status by emphasising victimhood. Someone who is a member of multiple categories that are perceived as disadvantaged will be afforded greater moral status than a member of just one or two, also known as the = purity spiral

Culture and identity

Culture and identity have become the main ideological battlegrounds of our era, where once they were class and the economy. Defining our identities has become all-important in a world where it is so easy to fade away and become just a ‘number’.

New terminology has emerged too. We have ‘mansplaining’, ‘whitesplaining’ and ‘straightsplaining’ (describing — a man, a white person, or a heterosexual explaining something to a woman, a person of colour, or a non-heterosexual in a laborious and patronising way).

Opposition to the victimhood culture

Those, however, who oppose the growing expansion of ‘political correctness’ (over-policing of speech and thought under the justification of social equity and diversity) have made counter-accusations…