The problem is that progressive and identity-consumed culture on elite campuses does lead to a victim/oppression Olympics. Leftists use self-reported marginalized identities for self-advancement. It's a status game. For example, huge numbers of students now pretend to be LGBTQ, either to increase their admission odds or to gain social st…
The problem is that progressive and identity-consumed culture on elite campuses does lead to a victim/oppression Olympics. Leftists use self-reported marginalized identities for self-advancement. It's a status game. For example, huge numbers of students now pretend to be LGBTQ, either to increase their admission odds or to gain social status as an oppressed person. A whopping 28.9% of Gen Z students at Harvard claims to be LGBTQ. At Brown it's even worse: 38%.
It pays to be part of a marginalized group and a member of the perpetually aggrieved. This creates the competitive urge to be positioned advantageously in a victimhood hierarchy. The Oppression Olympics is the arena wherein this competition of victimhood takes place, using identity politics and intersectionality to establish the “winners” of this grotesque theatre of the absurd.
And it is so incredibly privileged to have the luxury of spending time, energy and money competing for victim status! People who are actually starving in the street or who have no medical care are not going to show up for a "privilege walk."
The problem is that progressive and identity-consumed culture on elite campuses does lead to a victim/oppression Olympics. Leftists use self-reported marginalized identities for self-advancement. It's a status game. For example, huge numbers of students now pretend to be LGBTQ, either to increase their admission odds or to gain social status as an oppressed person. A whopping 28.9% of Gen Z students at Harvard claims to be LGBTQ. At Brown it's even worse: 38%.
https://euphoricrecall.substack.com/p/the-oppression-olympics
It pays to be part of a marginalized group and a member of the perpetually aggrieved. This creates the competitive urge to be positioned advantageously in a victimhood hierarchy. The Oppression Olympics is the arena wherein this competition of victimhood takes place, using identity politics and intersectionality to establish the “winners” of this grotesque theatre of the absurd.
And it is so incredibly privileged to have the luxury of spending time, energy and money competing for victim status! People who are actually starving in the street or who have no medical care are not going to show up for a "privilege walk."