The Problems of the Politics of Victimhood and the Perversion of Christianity Into Victimology and the Cancerous Growth of Holocaustian Victimology
andreaostrovletania.substack.com
The current crisis unfolding in Gaza reveals a portrait of victimology so characteristic of the global discourse. Each side claims to be David against the other side, the Goliath. It’s richly ironic because David, like Samson, made his name in conflicts with the Philistines(often the villains in the Torah), the ancient progenitors of the modern day Palestinians(at least according to national myths though some geneticists say otherwise), but the roles are almost reversed today with the Palestinians/Philistines taking on the role of the David/Samson against the Jewish Goliath.
The Problems of the Politics of Victimhood and the Perversion of Christianity Into Victimology and the Cancerous Growth of Holocaustian Victimology
The Problems of the Politics of Victimhood…
The Problems of the Politics of Victimhood and the Perversion of Christianity Into Victimology and the Cancerous Growth of Holocaustian Victimology
The current crisis unfolding in Gaza reveals a portrait of victimology so characteristic of the global discourse. Each side claims to be David against the other side, the Goliath. It’s richly ironic because David, like Samson, made his name in conflicts with the Philistines(often the villains in the Torah), the ancient progenitors of the modern day Palestinians(at least according to national myths though some geneticists say otherwise), but the roles are almost reversed today with the Palestinians/Philistines taking on the role of the David/Samson against the Jewish Goliath.