Since the Left, of which the Democratic Party is a wholly-owned subsidiary, gave up on its original focus on industrial workers as the revolutionary class, the old bourgeois/proletarian dichotomy is out. Tribes now line up according to categories in a plural
Cultural Marxist schematic of oppressor and victim pairings, with the latter claiming unlimited redress from the former.
As the late Joe Sobran said,
it takes a lot of clout to be a victim in America these days. The following is a helpful guide to who’s who under the new dispensation:
Disability laws may have morphed into political beasts, but their core is justified. People in wheelchairs deserve access just like everyone else. People with severe arthritis need to able to open doors. People with mental issues do not have the right to take pet peacocks on airplanes for emotional support.
In most of the above categories there are variations that can increase the intensity of oppressor or victim status. For example, certified victimhood in a recognized category confers extra points, like Black Lives Matter for race (it is racist to suggest that “
all lives matter”) or a defined religious group marginalized by “hate” (mainly
anti-Jewish or
anti-Muslim, but not something like anti-Buddhist, anti-Rastafarian, or even anti-atheist or anti-Satanist because no one bothers about them; anti-Christian victimhood is an oxymoron because “Christian” is inherently an oppressive category). In addition, meeting the criteria for more than one category confers enhanced victimhood under a principle called “
intersectionality.”
In the same way, there are aggravating factors in oppressor categories, such as being a policeman (an enforcer of the structure of oppression regardless of the officer’s personal victim attributes, but worse if straight, white, Christian, etc.) or a member of a “hate” subculture (a Southerner who’s
not vocally self-loathing is a presumed Klan sympathizer; thus, a diabetic, unemployed, opioid-addicted Georgia
cracker is an oppressor as the beneficiary of his “white privilege” and “toxic masculinity,” notwithstanding his socio-economic and health status). Like being Southern,
living while genetically Russian is also an aggravating factor.¹