The group that is so critical of minorities and gays "playing the victim" is actually entrenched in a "victimized" core belief system, thus most of their criticisms of the left seem more a form of projection.
Here are 3 examples of Tea Party playing the victim:
1) "Take our country back" -- the notion that the outcome of an election resulted in the theft of their country, their rights, or anything that belonged exclusively to them. In order accept this premise, you'd have to believe in an entire breakdown of our system of checks and balances--as if the limits on executive power magically disappeared overnight. And that term limits on President also went away. They were given a chance to "take back" the executive office in 2012, but failed to do so.
2) War on Christmas / Anti-Christian:
Christianity is the most widely practiced religion in the United States.
73% of Americans identify as Christians, 41% attend Church regularly.
3) "Gun grabbers" - any talk of gun safety or a more pragmatic and effective approach to making it difficult for criminals to acquire firearms is portrayed as the prelude to some tyrannical massive stripping of second amendment rights. This "victimhood" is mostly speculative and relies on straw men and slippery slope fallacies like "registration is the first step to confiscation"...
There are dozens of examples of ways the Tea Party plays the victim, Sarah Palin loves to play the victim, the media is not fair, the poor are "takers", and science is a swindle.
Poor us. We are forced to accept the outcome of an election, the decisions of the Supreme Court, and the law of the land.
Poor us. Our right to Free Speech also belongs to those we don't like, they get to talk about us in a critical and sometimes mocking way.
Poor us. Only the Family Research Counsel gets to decide which businesses to boycott. That's free speech. -- How dare environmental groups or Human Rights groups promote boycotts, that's the end of free speech.
Here are 3 examples of Tea Party playing the victim:
1) "Take our country back" -- the notion that the outcome of an election resulted in the theft of their country, their rights, or anything that belonged exclusively to them. In order accept this premise, you'd have to believe in an entire breakdown of our system of checks and balances--as if the limits on executive power magically disappeared overnight. And that term limits on President also went away. They were given a chance to "take back" the executive office in 2012, but failed to do so.
2) War on Christmas / Anti-Christian:
Christianity is the most widely practiced religion in the United States.
73% of Americans identify as Christians, 41% attend Church regularly.
- Their faux notion of a "war" amounts to a business or individual saying "Happy Holidays" during a period of the calendar year that covers Thanksgiving, Hanukah, Christmas, and New Years.
- They believe that it is anti-Christian to criticize anti-homosexual beliefs and practices as both intolerant and not supported by the teachings of Christ. In other words, they see it as wrong to read the bible in historical/cultural context and point out inconsistencies in their behavior and attitudes. Why are shrimp cocktails okay, if shellfish are an "abomination"?
- They believe it is anti-Christian to not allow religious mythology to be taught as science in public high schools.
3) "Gun grabbers" - any talk of gun safety or a more pragmatic and effective approach to making it difficult for criminals to acquire firearms is portrayed as the prelude to some tyrannical massive stripping of second amendment rights. This "victimhood" is mostly speculative and relies on straw men and slippery slope fallacies like "registration is the first step to confiscation"...
There are dozens of examples of ways the Tea Party plays the victim, Sarah Palin loves to play the victim, the media is not fair, the poor are "takers", and science is a swindle.
Poor us. We are forced to accept the outcome of an election, the decisions of the Supreme Court, and the law of the land.
Poor us. Our right to Free Speech also belongs to those we don't like, they get to talk about us in a critical and sometimes mocking way.
Poor us. Only the Family Research Counsel gets to decide which businesses to boycott. That's free speech. -- How dare environmental groups or Human Rights groups promote boycotts, that's the end of free speech.
