Posted on 12/14/2014 9:17:12 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The problem with a victim culture is that so many people want to join the ranks of victimhood that eventually you run short of oppressors. As I say in my new book (personally autographed copies of which make a Christmas gift your loved one will cherish forever), Elizabeth Warren is the whitest white since Frosty the Snowman fell in a vat of Wite-Out, but a dubious claim to be one 32nd Cherokee was enough to persuade Harvard Law School to promote her as their first "woman of color". No wonder so many Democrats prefer her to Hillary: The first "woman of color" in the Oval Office! The first Cherokee!
If you're not fortunate enough to have a great-great-great-grandmother who's listed as Cherokee in the online transcription of an 1894 marriage application, what do you do? Lena Dunham is an upper-middle-class child of white privilege who's had a charmed life, but she's a victim, too. According to her new memoir, she was raped by "Barry", the token conservative at Oberlin. The real-life Barry the Conservative denies raping her, and Random House has been forced to issue a statement "regretting the confusion" and to cover his legal bills, which he'd been paying for by "crowd-funding". The publisher couldn't resist a parting sneer:
We are offering to pay the fees Mr. Minc has billed his client to date. Our offer will allow Mr. Minc and his client to donate all of the crowd-funding raised to not-for-profit organizations assisting survivors of rape and sexual assault.
Because even if Barry the Conservative never raped Lena Dunham, odds are he's raped someone else, right? As Ann Coulter put it:
How about donating it to organizations that assist survivors of false rape accusations?
Rather than an epidemic of campus rape...
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
This is a reason for punitive damages.
“...great-great-great-grandmother who’s listed as Cherokee in the online transcription of an 1894 marriage application...”
Man, those are short generations. My great-grandfather was born in 1837.
And one of mine was born in 1833.
Just remember they married as young as 13, 14, 15 since life expectancy was mid 40s at that time, or less maybe.
My great grandparents died in their mid to late nineties and had maybe 75+ yrs of marriage....rare. Many diseases and accidents did not have good survival rates back two centuries ago.
One of Mark’s best.
Steyn bump!
“I note there are some three times as many male-to-female transgenders as there are female-to-male. “
Where is the diversity? Are quotas in order?
I'd politely decline. When he wins his lawsuit, the publisher will have to pay those expenses anyway.
Works for me..
Oh, this is good. What a way to start.
“The problem with a victim culture is that so many people want to join the ranks of victimhood that eventually you run short of oppressors.”
One of mine was born in 1835. He was 49 when my grandfather was born.
I think it was pretty common back in those days when 10 to 12 children per family was the norm. My great-grandfather was around 46 when my grandfather was born in 1879.
You gentlemen have just noticed that births to parents in their 40s and older are natural! (So are births to parents in their ‘teens.)
Most rape claims have always been false.
This is not to say that there are not legitimate rapes, its just that a lot of women see rape accusations as a way to get revenge against a man, while uplifting and absolving herself for her own deeds.
One of my more distant ancestors had 21 children by three wives--the youngest child was born when he was 73. She was only 5 years old when he died.
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