Real victims
This article, written by a Hebrew U doctoral candidate, appears in Wednesday's JPost. I think it's excellent.A person grows up and believes there are perpetrators and victims. He sees a person assaulted or hears about a rape or someone being abused, and he believes that in each incident there is a person who perpetrates the crime and a person who is the victim. Then one becomes more "enlightened" and learns that the victim is not as interesting as the perpetrator. The perpetrator's life story and mental state are deemed important in order to understand "why" he or she committed the crime.No, author Seth Frantzman doesn't believe the terrorists or their ethnic groups are the real victims. Read the whole thing. It's spot-on.
Then one grows even older and wiser and comes to learn that when there is a crime, the actual victim is the perpetrator's ethnic or religious group, which will be viewed negatively because of what he did. In the end, one learns that the real victim in every crime is the wider society - particularly the group the criminal came from. This is how one grows up in modern Western society. In this world the "victims" of World War I, far from being all the soldiers or civilians killed, were the Germans because, as the aggressors, they were punished by the Versailles Treaty. The victims of the Holocaust were not the Jews who died but the Palestinians who saw the survivors sent to their homeland. The victims of the three recent acts of terrorism by Muslims from east Jerusalem are not the 11 dead and 70 wounded Jews, but the Palestinian Arabs who might lose work because of the actions of their countrymen.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:32 PM
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We live in a world in which stupidity is accepted as the moral equivalent of wisdom. If the world was sane, the stupid people in it would all be seen as laughingstocks!
Dear CiJ,
Unrelated:
Speaking of Hebrew U., did you come across this one ?
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/07/hebrew-u-profes.html
One good news per month is far enough ;)
Meanwhile, keep up the good work.
Avigail,
Yes, I saw that story at the end of last week. The only reason I didn't run it was that several big blogs did and I didn't feel like I had a lot to add about it.
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