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- noun The state or perception of being a
victim
Etymologies
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Examples
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Letting go of victimhood is not the easiest thing for us to do -- most of us have years and years of experience.
Mike Robbins: Seeing Adversity As Happening for Us, Not to Us Mike Robbins 2010
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Remember, victimhood is always a smokescreen, keeping us away from our authentic and vulnerable feelings.
Mike Robbins: Seeing Adversity As Happening for Us, Not to Us Mike Robbins 2010
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In fact, victimhood is something we often used as a survival technique as children and adolescents.
Mike Robbins: Seeing Adversity As Happening for Us, Not to Us Mike Robbins 2010
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Remember, victimhood is always a smokescreen, keeping us away from our authentic and vulnerable feelings.
Mike Robbins: Seeing Adversity As Happening for Us, Not to Us Mike Robbins 2010
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Remember, victimhood is always a smokescreen, keeping us away from our authentic and vulnerable feelings.
Mike Robbins: Seeing Adversity As Happening for Us, Not to Us Mike Robbins 2010
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Like Global Warming, Black victimhood is a business now.
Blacks in survey say race relations no better with Obama 2009
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To the extent the potential victim has the ability to freely avoid being the subject of that behavior, their victimhood is reduced or eliminated.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Crime to Repeatedly Insult a Minor 2010
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To find that she has a duty to warn others of her victimhood is to doubly victimize her.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Stalking Victims’ Duty to Warn Employees, Lovers, Visitors, and Others? 2010
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If my victimhood is victimhoody enough the programs stay in place.
Georgia congressman: Wilson's outburst 'carefully calculated' 2009
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In fact, victimhood is something we often used as a survival technique as children and adolescents.
Mike Robbins: Seeing Adversity As Happening for Us, Not to Us Mike Robbins 2010
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Spiked: 'Those who argue today that Zionism is ‘an expansionist, lawless and racist ideology’ also distort the facts. It is true that, both before and more significantly after the Second World War, Zionism was reliant on the imperialist powers to make its dream of a Jewish homeland a reality. That is because the rise of Zionism was implicitly bound up with the imperialist era, and there were powerful forces in the West – most notably Britain and the United States – that were keen to exploit Zionism for political ends. In the current period, however, we have what we might refer to as ‘Defensive Zionism’ – a form of Zionism that is less interested in expanding than withdrawing behind security walls, and which justifies itself less by reference to future-oriented dreams of a Land of Zion than by appeals to a ‘Jewish identity’ of victimhood... Contemporary Zionism is defensive. It is underpinned not by visions of the future but by ideas of Jewish victimhood, by the necessity of halting ‘future Holocausts’ against the Jews from their various mortal enemies.'
January 20, 2009