Reply #10: the prime characteristic of false victimhood [View All]

is the need to get rid of guilt, by projecting it onto another. rush hates and fears black people, yet he feels guilty about it deep inside, which is unacceptable to him. so, he makes an offensive statement about black quarterbacks and then attributes it to the "liberal media." see? it's not him, it's the liberal media that's racist now. a nice little bait and switch. no wonder he didn't apologize. he feels great-- he got rid of those bad guilty feelings.

likewise, the manipulation of feelings of victimhood after 9/11 serves the same purpose. it makes angry (white) americans feel GOOD about their anti-arab, anti-muslim, anti-third world racism. they can express it fully, in public, without fear of retribution. but deep down they know that their country has been slaughtering people in the middle east for their oil-- and the guilt must be dealt with somehow. it's so much better now that americans are the victims. no other story can be told.