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Usually I take the other side in this debate, but I think there really is such a thing as a victimisation crisis. It's true that it's both predictable and depressing that the left is only capable of seeing it through this lens now that men are both complaining the way other groups do and now that there is more-or-less incontrovertible evidence that they're getting shafted.
But it's really, genuinely bad for a society when everyone sees everything in a oppressor/oppressed dichotomy, and even worse when we have some many different axis of oppression that just about anyone can claim victimhood and be sorta kinda right.
A society is imo working best if it is primarily centered around rewarding production or else giving a basic safety net and claims of victimhood are frowned upon and need a high burden of proof. A victimhood culture invariably creates competition around being victimized, which has awful incentives.
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