[GOPJ]

What low-income whites in England and ghetto blacks in the United States have in common is a generations-long indoctrination in victimhood. The political left in both countries has, for more than half a century, maintained a steady and loud drumbeat of claims that the deck is stacked against those at the bottom.

Almost like 'learned helplessness' - only much worse. Sowell's on to something important here... Are parents in England rewarded with extra 'welfare' for having children who are 'out of control'?

[RipSawyer]

There was a time when no one wanted to admit to having been victimized, to come forth and CLAIM to be a victim as if it entitled you to special status would have been unimaginable. Little boys who came home from school with a black eye did not admit to how they had been bullied, they said, “You ought to see the other guy, he has two black eyes and a bloody nose, I beat him good.” Fathers did not encourage their children to claim victimhood, they taught them to stand up for themselves. It was an entirely different world and in my opinion at least, a much better world.