Earlier today, in response to a post from David Thompson, I had an email conversation with him about the Church of England. He said the following:
Well, I think people like the Bishop of London are picking up on the passive-aggressive tactics favoured by Muslim lobby groups: “Poor us. Feel our pain. We’ve victimised. So do as we say.â€Â
Maybe we’ll have a theological arms race on our hands, as the various tribes vie for the upper hand:
“Feel my pain.â€Â
“No, feel my pain!â€Â
“My pain is the greatest! Feel it! Feel it now…!â€Â
To which I responded: “There is no pain but My Pain.”
So, here is your chance to outline your Grievance, and to demonstrate why it trumps all other grievances, anywhere, evaaaaaar!
On a related note, my friend Frank Pulley draws our attention to Melanie Phillips’s excellent Quadrant Lecture from Sydney.
It’s a Quagmire: Patterico’s also having to move servers, so any comments you make there between 8:30 Pacific tonight and 7 or 8 tomorrow morning may be lost. In fact, though, as the lefties will tell you, it’s probably a cleverly timed diversion to escape from the thread that he started by outrageously claiming that contrary to Gleen’s assertion, lots of prominent lefties say hateful things.
Parochial School Tuition.
You bastards!
I’m a white male who supports the President, the troops and their mission.
Trolls, Muslims, Frenchmen, baby-boomers, Germans, Labour Voters, New Zealanders, Venezuelans, Iraqis, Afghans, Chinese, People of Color, Progressives, Steroid Users, Afghans, Children, Environmentalists, Canadians, Skunk Pussies, Iranians, Dopers, Junkies, Vietnam Vets with PSTD, GBLT Persons, Democrats, Liberal Jews, Palestinians, Episcopalians, Hatians, Somalis, Italians, Native Americans, Turkomen, Croats, Welfare Recipients, Manatees and Cetaceans
all hate me.
No one is more hated and thus more aggrieved, victimized and otherized, than I.
TW: “Man, that’s heavy33.”
HELP HELP, I’m being repressed!!!!
CAN YOU BE A VICTIM BECAUSE YOU ARE ROBBED OF YOUR GRIEVANCE?
All ideologies are driven by two concepts: the Vision and the Grievance. The Vision is a future ideal scenario (e.g., for socialists, the worker-controlled, leveled society; for Islamists, society as it was with Mohamed). The Grievance is a present-time, frustrating impediment to the Vision (e.g., for socialists, Big Oil profits, for Islamists, the infuriatingly beautiful, diaphanous dresses of the Dubai Film Festival). This Vision-Grievance template works for every movement from neo-nazis to boy scouts. The catastrophe for the left is the death of their Vision, the SOCIALIST PARADISE. Socialism failed, wherever it was implemented. The left retains Grievances (Big Business, economic disparities, welfare, etc), but with no Vision, the MSM, John Kerry, Cindy Sheehan, etc. act defensive, hostile, and lost. They ally with Islamists because they will sacrifice anything to thwart Bush. The moral turpitude, the wobbly high-grounding, the aimless reasoning, the constant whining, betray the permanent lack of direction, the frustrated malaise of a dying political philosophy.
…and reparations are my profit.
“My pain is the greatest! Feel it! Feel it now…!â€Â
Touch it! Lieben meine Schmerz-monkey!
I wish I could feel pain.
Jeff stole my dog and gave it to an orphan. A jooish orphan.
I went to the garden store and asked for 2 faggots.
Now I’m in rehab. Mel is a funny guy but scary!
Will we have cupcakes with lunch?
Both Ptolemy and Galileo were wrong – the universe revolves around ME, therefore my pain is the pain of teh center of the universe and trumps all other pain, by definition.
Supplicate yourselves before my pain!
No, I don’t have any self-esteem issues. why do you ask?
My Grievance is that I shall never come up with a thread title as good as this one. Damn you!
Squid,
Just keep those monkeys banging away on their typewriters, and don’t let them go on bathroom breaks.
It works for me.
I can’t get a decent Southern-style biscuit with country ham and red-eyed gravy anyplace in New York City.
The Feds need to DO something.