The fact that Trump is now granting citizenship and asylum to white men from South Africa because they are somehow VICTIMS is the worst example of this victimhood problem. Great article!
Every time a right-wing conservative complains about anything, at the core of their grievance is the inevitable fallout of whiteness and the unrestrained technological “progress” driven by capitalism, a project of whiteness they themselves actively uphold. The so-called “culture war” is just this dynamic laid bare: a desperate, performative revolt against the consequences of a system they refuse to interrogate.
They are perpetual victims of their own refusal to think critically, feel deeply, or reflect honestly. They lack not just emotional and moral intelligence, but the courage to grieve. To grieve the false promises of empire. To grieve the loss of meaning that comes with exploiting the Earth, others, and themselves.
And so, they lash out. But their rage isn’t revolutionary, it’s a tantrum. A tantrum against the ghosts of their own design.
This is great, thanks for sharing. There are people and outlets such as the Free Press brandishing themselves as “centrist” when it is absolutely right wing propaganda. It’s hooking itself into once left leaning spaces and people due to exactly what you said - people not thinking critically and honestly.
Excellent article. Cogent, accurate, and addressing something about right wingers that I don’t think gets enough attention. One minor quibble, or observation at least - Josh Olson is typically very intelligent and has great politics. I used to listen to his West Wing Thing podcast quite a bit and I always found him to be insightful and on point about the problems of the Democratic Party and liberalism / centrism. I’m surprised by his take in that post. I’m raising two teenage boys myself and do not agree with him at all. I see no evidence that they are being told that they’re “bad” simply for being young males. (I have a teenage daughter too, and it’s still much harder to raise a girl, for all the reasons you’d expect - i.e. raising her in a profoundly misogynistic society.)
That’s a gross understatement i would say its fucking America and the world up and leading us down a downward spiral of toxic reactionary bullshit and i wish the centre right to far right and all the right in between would kindly fuck off and we gotta tell them that loudly and rudely and politely and not accommodate or repackage it as a left wing which some dingbats on the left want us to do
Thank you for talking about this and bringing attention to CivicScience John Dick's comments.
Full stop. John Dick is a racist. Particularly an Islamophobe and Anti-Palestinian racist. I resigned from his company in October 2023 after being mistreated by several of his employees and then experiencing homophobia and racism post October 7. His employees were posting genocidal rhetoric and all sorts of Islamophobic content on Linkedin (mind you our clients were connected on LinkedIn and we used it for official training and development).
John Dick has a public newsletter read by high-level business figures, politicians, and celebrities. He sent out a message in solidarity with Israel and the people affected, not once mentioning Palestinians. This was around October 11. He basically called the attack 'antisemitism' and referred to it as 'barbaric' and other words. The next two weeks, I saw my fellow coworkers post content inciting genocide and using racist anti-Palestinian tropes, such as 'Pallywood.' A trope that seeks to fictionalize and delegitimize the suffering of Palestinians. These were people including seniors above me and a Research manager, who happened to be a Zionist. Being that I was active in SJP as far as 2014, I no longer felt safe working for John. I have several Palestinian friends and other professional relationships with Palestinians. Several of my classmates and colleagues have been doxxed on websites like Canary. John's HR person was also liking news stories about students at colleges campuses being doxxed for supposedly supporting Hamas.
I really regret working for him. We were advised against posting political opinions online (because we were a polling and research company), yet John always felt like everyone needed to hear his political opinion. He masquerades as 'enlightened centrist' but is really just a right-winger. He launched an infamous poll back in 2019 about Arabic numerals being taught in public schools (a clout seeking and unethical move). He claimed the poll results were a result of anti-Arab racism yet let his employees be Anti-Arab and was Anti-Arab himself after October 7 so he could kiss up to powerful Zionists by calling Palestinians antisemites. As if Palestinians are responsible for European antisemitism. On October 20, I asked him why he hadn't spoken about the genocide in Gaza? He replied with a racist DARVO or deflection. Basically repeating the debunked Hamas rape propaganda pushed by NYTimes and Anat Shwartz.
John has not made any public statement nor apologized to me personally. Especially if we go to war with Iran, I really implore people to not cite CivicScience research as the leadership is clearly biased. Their board of directors (Karyn Schoenbart) is a Zionist is a well and affiliates herself with organizations that spread Anti-Palestinian hate and genocidal propaganda.
I had listened to two powerful Indigenous academics (Kim TallBear and Candis Callison) talk about why the survey he launched was unethical. Several people on the podcast mentioned he had a pompous quality to his character. If only my naive market research job-seeking self would have known, I would have never worked for John. Anyways, I am thinking of reaching out to journalists to share my story. If you know anyone that I can speak to or help, please let me know. I believe I am currently being blacklisted in this industry by these powerful individuals for speaking up against my own dehumanization and that of Palestinians. Yes, among the wrongful content shared was jokes about Hamas throwing gay people off roofs. I am a queer person as well. However, the red flags begin to appear. One of them was calling Chris Cuomo is friend or bragging about Chris Cuomo being his friend (another defender of a sex pest and anti-Palestinian racism). Take perfectly describes John's philosophy with regard to how he runs his company - it's always someone else's fault.
Blaming things on the woke era is all I’ve seen from the democratic party so far. Now, they’re denouncing it strongly to win political points. No doubt things got out of hand, but instead of, “here’s what we really meant,” it becomes, “we don’t do that anymore.” An underlying pattern I see is that democratic politicians are far too swayed by the voters. Of course, it’s important to make your constituents happy, but you were elected to serve their best interests, not serve them.
Sure, it's to win elections-- but it didn't work this last cycle. There is a lack of respect for the democratic party. For example, the left is the side that believes in climate change and advocates for sustainability, but I find it hard to take them seriously when they don’t address what is actually causing our climate crisis (food systems) because everyone is involved with the dairy/beef/fish lobbies. They just point out issues that will appease their voters like denouncing plastic straws, which is a message so asinine that the right wing uses it to its advantage..
Hyndman is the perfect example of the crab mentality that dominates rural White America.
Most people's opinion of "the Left" seems to based on the right-wing caricature rather than any actual evidence. I once got into an argument online where someone was insisting that the Democrats lost the election because they "demonized White males," or some such. I politely asked for an example--after all, Harris and Walz gave plenty of speeches on the campaign trail and during the conventions. Surely, there would be *some* example that he could point to if that were true. The person responded with rage and profanity.
I think people forget that an additional burden of being a teenage girl is that you can get pregnant. To me, this alone makes it harder being a teenage girl than a boy--and that's without the added danger of sexual violence. Neither of these affect boys in the same way, and for some reason that's never mentioned in male victimhood culture.
Too funny! The United States of Slaver Tax Evasion!
I had an English teacher who told her own sons that they didn’t have to be lawyers, but in every other respect she expected them to be Atticus Finch, nothing less. Truly this white male victimhood stuff combines so strangely with their alpha male ideal. It’s like, let me be the team captain AND the class bully or I’m going to cry! It takes Olympian feats of cognitive dissonance. Perhaps not every child needs to idolize Atticus Finch, but boy, it’s a lot saner, even easier ideal to uphold than this nonsense.
The fact that Trump is now granting citizenship and asylum to white men from South Africa because they are somehow VICTIMS is the worst example of this victimhood problem. Great article!
Tell me about it! Reminds me of the quote, 'To the privileged, equality looks like oppression.'
Every time a right-wing conservative complains about anything, at the core of their grievance is the inevitable fallout of whiteness and the unrestrained technological “progress” driven by capitalism, a project of whiteness they themselves actively uphold. The so-called “culture war” is just this dynamic laid bare: a desperate, performative revolt against the consequences of a system they refuse to interrogate.
They are perpetual victims of their own refusal to think critically, feel deeply, or reflect honestly. They lack not just emotional and moral intelligence, but the courage to grieve. To grieve the false promises of empire. To grieve the loss of meaning that comes with exploiting the Earth, others, and themselves.
And so, they lash out. But their rage isn’t revolutionary, it’s a tantrum. A tantrum against the ghosts of their own design.
Tantrum is the best way to put it.
This is great, thanks for sharing. There are people and outlets such as the Free Press brandishing themselves as “centrist” when it is absolutely right wing propaganda. It’s hooking itself into once left leaning spaces and people due to exactly what you said - people not thinking critically and honestly.
Excellent article. Cogent, accurate, and addressing something about right wingers that I don’t think gets enough attention. One minor quibble, or observation at least - Josh Olson is typically very intelligent and has great politics. I used to listen to his West Wing Thing podcast quite a bit and I always found him to be insightful and on point about the problems of the Democratic Party and liberalism / centrism. I’m surprised by his take in that post. I’m raising two teenage boys myself and do not agree with him at all. I see no evidence that they are being told that they’re “bad” simply for being young males. (I have a teenage daughter too, and it’s still much harder to raise a girl, for all the reasons you’d expect - i.e. raising her in a profoundly misogynistic society.)
That’s a gross understatement i would say its fucking America and the world up and leading us down a downward spiral of toxic reactionary bullshit and i wish the centre right to far right and all the right in between would kindly fuck off and we gotta tell them that loudly and rudely and politely and not accommodate or repackage it as a left wing which some dingbats on the left want us to do
You'll get no pushback from me.
Lol 😂 keep up the brilliant work btw! you do superb journalism!
Thank you, Youri!
Thank you for talking about this and bringing attention to CivicScience John Dick's comments.
Full stop. John Dick is a racist. Particularly an Islamophobe and Anti-Palestinian racist. I resigned from his company in October 2023 after being mistreated by several of his employees and then experiencing homophobia and racism post October 7. His employees were posting genocidal rhetoric and all sorts of Islamophobic content on Linkedin (mind you our clients were connected on LinkedIn and we used it for official training and development).
John Dick has a public newsletter read by high-level business figures, politicians, and celebrities. He sent out a message in solidarity with Israel and the people affected, not once mentioning Palestinians. This was around October 11. He basically called the attack 'antisemitism' and referred to it as 'barbaric' and other words. The next two weeks, I saw my fellow coworkers post content inciting genocide and using racist anti-Palestinian tropes, such as 'Pallywood.' A trope that seeks to fictionalize and delegitimize the suffering of Palestinians. These were people including seniors above me and a Research manager, who happened to be a Zionist. Being that I was active in SJP as far as 2014, I no longer felt safe working for John. I have several Palestinian friends and other professional relationships with Palestinians. Several of my classmates and colleagues have been doxxed on websites like Canary. John's HR person was also liking news stories about students at colleges campuses being doxxed for supposedly supporting Hamas.
I really regret working for him. We were advised against posting political opinions online (because we were a polling and research company), yet John always felt like everyone needed to hear his political opinion. He masquerades as 'enlightened centrist' but is really just a right-winger. He launched an infamous poll back in 2019 about Arabic numerals being taught in public schools (a clout seeking and unethical move). He claimed the poll results were a result of anti-Arab racism yet let his employees be Anti-Arab and was Anti-Arab himself after October 7 so he could kiss up to powerful Zionists by calling Palestinians antisemites. As if Palestinians are responsible for European antisemitism. On October 20, I asked him why he hadn't spoken about the genocide in Gaza? He replied with a racist DARVO or deflection. Basically repeating the debunked Hamas rape propaganda pushed by NYTimes and Anat Shwartz.
John has not made any public statement nor apologized to me personally. Especially if we go to war with Iran, I really implore people to not cite CivicScience research as the leadership is clearly biased. Their board of directors (Karyn Schoenbart) is a Zionist is a well and affiliates herself with organizations that spread Anti-Palestinian hate and genocidal propaganda.
I had listened to two powerful Indigenous academics (Kim TallBear and Candis Callison) talk about why the survey he launched was unethical. Several people on the podcast mentioned he had a pompous quality to his character. If only my naive market research job-seeking self would have known, I would have never worked for John. Anyways, I am thinking of reaching out to journalists to share my story. If you know anyone that I can speak to or help, please let me know. I believe I am currently being blacklisted in this industry by these powerful individuals for speaking up against my own dehumanization and that of Palestinians. Yes, among the wrongful content shared was jokes about Hamas throwing gay people off roofs. I am a queer person as well. However, the red flags begin to appear. One of them was calling Chris Cuomo is friend or bragging about Chris Cuomo being his friend (another defender of a sex pest and anti-Palestinian racism). Take perfectly describes John's philosophy with regard to how he runs his company - it's always someone else's fault.
Blaming things on the woke era is all I’ve seen from the democratic party so far. Now, they’re denouncing it strongly to win political points. No doubt things got out of hand, but instead of, “here’s what we really meant,” it becomes, “we don’t do that anymore.” An underlying pattern I see is that democratic politicians are far too swayed by the voters. Of course, it’s important to make your constituents happy, but you were elected to serve their best interests, not serve them.
Sure, it's to win elections-- but it didn't work this last cycle. There is a lack of respect for the democratic party. For example, the left is the side that believes in climate change and advocates for sustainability, but I find it hard to take them seriously when they don’t address what is actually causing our climate crisis (food systems) because everyone is involved with the dairy/beef/fish lobbies. They just point out issues that will appease their voters like denouncing plastic straws, which is a message so asinine that the right wing uses it to its advantage..
Hyndman is the perfect example of the crab mentality that dominates rural White America.
Most people's opinion of "the Left" seems to based on the right-wing caricature rather than any actual evidence. I once got into an argument online where someone was insisting that the Democrats lost the election because they "demonized White males," or some such. I politely asked for an example--after all, Harris and Walz gave plenty of speeches on the campaign trail and during the conventions. Surely, there would be *some* example that he could point to if that were true. The person responded with rage and profanity.
I think people forget that an additional burden of being a teenage girl is that you can get pregnant. To me, this alone makes it harder being a teenage girl than a boy--and that's without the added danger of sexual violence. Neither of these affect boys in the same way, and for some reason that's never mentioned in male victimhood culture.
P.S. it's Jim Crow, not Jim Crowe.
The Tates? Never heard of them. Some kinda niche for shitstains like the incel thing?
Too funny! The United States of Slaver Tax Evasion!
I had an English teacher who told her own sons that they didn’t have to be lawyers, but in every other respect she expected them to be Atticus Finch, nothing less. Truly this white male victimhood stuff combines so strangely with their alpha male ideal. It’s like, let me be the team captain AND the class bully or I’m going to cry! It takes Olympian feats of cognitive dissonance. Perhaps not every child needs to idolize Atticus Finch, but boy, it’s a lot saner, even easier ideal to uphold than this nonsense.