The Persecuted Persecutors Phenomenon
Oct 7, 2023 4:51:16 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on Oct 7, 2023 4:51:16 GMT -5
The Persecuted Persecutors Phenomenon
To be persecuted to is to be harassed, hounded, treated in a belligerent and a humiliating fashion.
Now such persecution can include physical aggression, psychological aggression, or both. Its basis can be religious, political, racial or ethnic intolerance, which imbues the persecutor with a sense of mission or moral obligation to aggress.
However, what distinguishes it in this particular case, is that those doing the persecuting belong to a group that itself has been and is still being persecuted. In short, the complaining individuals involved are imitating their
persecutors instead of learning the value of compassion.
Why? Well, perhaps because they have learned just how deeply it hurts and have come to consider it a valuable weapon to wield against those whom they intensely dislike and whom they deem deserve the persecution. After all, if it hurt them that profoundly, then it definitely will hurt others in that effective way as well.
Of course, this has a very serious downside. You see, if indeed we decide to deploy things that hurt us against others, then we lose credibility when we complain about such abuse in our own case. In other words, we simply can't go around denouncing the whippings we received, or are receiving, while simultaneously brandishing a bullwhip of our own on others. It smacks of blatant hypocrisy, and those hearing our complaints, will feel totally justified in turning a deaf ear to our constant moanings. So it's a double-edged sword of sorts.
Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to deter such individuals from imitating their persecutors one bit. You can see them at the grocery stores or other store checkout-counters treating their intended targets in a rude manner, or else refusing to serve them at all. Or you observe them persecuting certain patients at hospitals and cunningly setting differences aside and joining forces with their own persecutors against those whom they perceive as their common enemies.
You can observe them demanding that those whom they target go home or back to the country where they came from. You can see them physically attacking certain people on busses or on the streets. Or else harassing newly-arrived immigrants in order to force them out of what they consider their neighborhoods and their country.
Then, after their supposedly-patriotic task is done, there you have them once more demanding equal rights and financial reparations, and constantly bellyaching about just how much injustice they are being forced to endure.
persecution
: punishment or harassment usually of a severe nature on the basis of race, religion, or political opinion in one's country of origin
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/persecution
: punishment or harassment usually of a severe nature on the basis of race, religion, or political opinion in one's country of origin
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/persecution
Now such persecution can include physical aggression, psychological aggression, or both. Its basis can be religious, political, racial or ethnic intolerance, which imbues the persecutor with a sense of mission or moral obligation to aggress.
However, what distinguishes it in this particular case, is that those doing the persecuting belong to a group that itself has been and is still being persecuted. In short, the complaining individuals involved are imitating their
persecutors instead of learning the value of compassion.
Why? Well, perhaps because they have learned just how deeply it hurts and have come to consider it a valuable weapon to wield against those whom they intensely dislike and whom they deem deserve the persecution. After all, if it hurt them that profoundly, then it definitely will hurt others in that effective way as well.
Of course, this has a very serious downside. You see, if indeed we decide to deploy things that hurt us against others, then we lose credibility when we complain about such abuse in our own case. In other words, we simply can't go around denouncing the whippings we received, or are receiving, while simultaneously brandishing a bullwhip of our own on others. It smacks of blatant hypocrisy, and those hearing our complaints, will feel totally justified in turning a deaf ear to our constant moanings. So it's a double-edged sword of sorts.
Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to deter such individuals from imitating their persecutors one bit. You can see them at the grocery stores or other store checkout-counters treating their intended targets in a rude manner, or else refusing to serve them at all. Or you observe them persecuting certain patients at hospitals and cunningly setting differences aside and joining forces with their own persecutors against those whom they perceive as their common enemies.
You can observe them demanding that those whom they target go home or back to the country where they came from. You can see them physically attacking certain people on busses or on the streets. Or else harassing newly-arrived immigrants in order to force them out of what they consider their neighborhoods and their country.
Then, after their supposedly-patriotic task is done, there you have them once more demanding equal rights and financial reparations, and constantly bellyaching about just how much injustice they are being forced to endure.