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-->--'''Frasier Crane''', ''Series/{{Frasier}}''

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-->--'''Frasier Crane''', ''Series/{{Frasier}}''''Series/{{Frasier}}''

->''"The fact is that there is something deeply appealing about him. One feels it again when one sees his photographs—and I recommend especially the photograph at the beginning of Hurst and Blackett’s edition, which shows Hitler in his early Brownshirt days. It is a pathetic, dog-like face, the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs. In a rather more manly way it reproduces the expression of innumerable pictures of Christ crucified, and there is little doubt that that is how Hitler sees himself. The initial, personal cause of his grievance against the universe can only be guessed at; but at any rate the grievance is here. He is the martyr, the victim, Prometheus chained to the rock, the self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds. If he were killing a mouse he would know how to make it seem like a dragon. One feels, as with Napoleon, that he is fighting against destiny, that he can’t win, and yet that he somehow deserves to. The attraction of such a pose is of course enormous; half the films that one sees turn upon some such theme."''
-->--'''Creator/GeorgeOrwell''' on '''UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler'''
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-->--'''Fred Clark''', [[https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2020/06/23/shake-shack-who/ Patheos]]

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-->--'''Fred Clark''', [[https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2020/06/23/shake-shack-who/ Patheos]]Patheos]]

->''Fine! Fine! Turn your anger on me! It's almost as if you were forgetting that not three days ago, I was punched in the ''face''... by a man now '''dead'''!''
-->--'''Frasier Crane''', ''Series/{{Frasier}}''
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->'''NAMBLA Leader:''' We are human. Most of us didn't even choose to be attracted to young boys. We were born that way. We can't help the way we are, and if you all can't understand that, well, then, I guess you'll just have to put us away!\\
'''Kyle:''' [[ShutUpHannibal ...Dude! You have sex, with children!]]
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''

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'''Kyle:''' [[ShutUpHannibal ...Dude! You have sex, with children!]]\\
'''Stan:''' Yeah. You know, we believe in equality for everybody and tolerance and all that gay stuff, but dude, [[PrecisionFStrike fuck you!]]\\
'''Kyle:''' Seriously!

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'''Kyle:''' [[ShutUpHannibal ...Dude! You have sex, with children!]]\\
'''Stan:''' Yeah. You know, we believe in equality for everybody and tolerance and all that gay stuff, but dude, [[PrecisionFStrike fuck you!]]\\
'''Kyle:''' Seriously!
children!]]
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Some guy's opinions don't automatically demonstrate the trope Playing The Victim Card.


-->--'''Fred Clark''', [[https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2020/06/23/shake-shack-who/ Patheos]]

->Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.
-->--'''Thomas Sowell'''

->Victimhood is where it's at. If there are not enough real victims, then fictitious victims must be created - as with the claim that there is "a war on women". ... The real war - which is being waged in our schools, in the media and among intelligentsia - is the war on achievement.
-->--also '''Thomas Sowell'''

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-->--'''Fred Clark''', [[https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2020/06/23/shake-shack-who/ Patheos]]

->Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.
-->--'''Thomas Sowell'''

->Victimhood is where it's at. If there are not enough real victims, then fictitious victims must be created - as with the claim that there is "a war on women". ... The real war - which is being waged in our schools, in the media and among intelligentsia - is the war on achievement.
-->--also '''Thomas Sowell'''
Patheos]]
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->Victimhood is where it's at. If there are not enough real victims, then fictitious victims must be created - as with the claim that there is "a war on women". ... The real which - which is being waged in our schools, in the media and among intelligentsia - is the war on achievement.

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->Victimhood is where it's at. If there are not enough real victims, then fictitious victims must be created - as with the claim that there is "a war on women". ... The real which war - which is being waged in our schools, in the media and among intelligentsia - is the war on achievement.

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->''Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.''
-->--'''Thomas Sowell'''

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->''Helping ->Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.''
life.
-->--'''Thomas Sowell'''

->Victimhood is where it's at. If there are not enough real victims, then fictitious victims must be created - as with the claim that there is "a war on women". ... The real which - which is being waged in our schools, in the media and among intelligentsia - is the war on achievement.
-->--also '''Thomas
Sowell'''
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-->--'''Fred Clark''', [[https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2020/06/23/shake-shack-who/ Patheos]]

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-->--'''Fred Clark''', [[https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2020/06/23/shake-shack-who/ Patheos]]Patheos]]

->''Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.''
-->--'''Thomas Sowell'''
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->'''NAMBLA Leader:''' We are human. Most of us didn't even choose to be attracted to young boys. We were born that way. We can't help the way we are, and if you all can't understand that, well, then, I guess you'll just have to put us away!\\
'''Kyle:''' [[ShutUpHannibal ...Dude! You have sex, with children!]]\\
'''Stan:''' Yeah. You know, we believe in equality for everybody and tolerance and all that gay stuff, but dude, [[PrecisionFStrike fuck you!]]\\
'''Kyle:''' Seriously!
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''
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-->--'''Fred Clark''', Blog/{{Patheos}}

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-->--'''Fred Clark''', Blog/{{Patheos}}[[https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2020/06/23/shake-shack-who/ Patheos]]
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-->-- '''Rick''' to '''Jerry Smith''', ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''

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-->-- '''Rick''' to '''Jerry Smith''', ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''

->Criticism of police killings and police violence always seems to be unsettling and bewildering for police departments. They don’t quite comprehend what they’re hearing and don’t know how to respond. They seem to dimly grasp that the criticism against them has some strange power — that they people they have harmed and wronged are wielding some kind of incomprehensible moral authority against them. But they’re not quite able to understand what that moral authority means or how it works.

->So they try to imitate it, to mimic the form of this thing they recognize is somehow powerful but whose power they are not able to understand. They see the public rallying around and behind their victims so they imagine that claiming such victimhood for themselves will by some mysterious alchemy allow them to wield that same confusing moral authority. So they start telling stories asserting that they are the “real” victims.

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->The most audaciously dishonest recent story involved a couple of NYPD officers who ordered milkshakes at a Manhattan Shake Shack. They took a sip and thought the shakes tasted funny, so the Shake Shack guy apologized and gave them coupons making their next order on the house. The milkshake machine had just been cleaned, he explained, and sometimes the first few shakes after that can taste a little soapy.

->That would have been the end of the story, but the NYPD brass decided to whip up a shake of their own by somehow turning this into a violent attack on their officers, and on all police officers everywhere. “Tonight, three of our brothers in blue were intentionally poisoned by one or more workers at the Shake Shack at 200 Broadway in Manhattan.”

->That’s an actual quote from an actual press release from New York’s Detective Endowment’s Association. It’s a complete fabrication — a knowing lie, told in full knowledge that it was a lie. A Bronx lieutenant sent out an email to the city’s police unions, repeating and embellishing that lie in full knowledge that this is what he was doing. He doubled the number of officers involved, claiming that six cops “started throwing up after drinking beverages they got from shake shack on 200 Broadway.” No, they didn’t. They didn’t drink the beverages and they didn’t throw up or get sick at all.

->Those three officers were apparently happy with their coupons, but their bosses set to work filing false reports and soon were sending detectives and forensic investigators to drape the Shake Shack in crime-scene tape and otherwise do everything they could to steal the mysterious, magical authority their actual victims were then wielding against them by pretending, instead, that they were the “real” victims, the thin blue line protecting you and your family from a nefarious conspiracy of milk-shake-poisoning anarchists.
-->--'''Fred Clark''', Blog/{{Patheos}}
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->''I took'' your ''family? Who do you think had more taken from them when you shot 20 cc's of liquid dream-killer into my daughter? She was Rick's daughter, Jerry. She had options! That all ended because she felt sorry for you. You act like prey but you're a predator. You use pity to lure in your victims. It's how you survive. I survive because I know everything, that snake survives because children wander off, and you survive because people think, "Oh this poor piece of shit! He never gets a break. I can't stand the deafening wails of his wilted soul. I guess I'll hire him or marry him."''

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->''I took'' your ''family? Who do you think had more taken from them when you shot 20 cc's of liquid dream-killer into my daughter? She was Rick's daughter, Jerry. Jerry! She had options! That all ended because she felt sorry for you. You act like prey but you're a predator. You use pity to lure in your victims. It's how you survive. I survive because I know everything, that snake survives because children wander off, and you survive because people think, "Oh this poor piece of shit! He never gets a break. I can't stand the deafening wails of his wilted soul. I guess I'll hire him him, or marry him."''him!"''
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->''I took'' your ''family? Who do you think had more taken from them when you shot 20 cc of liquid dream-killer into my daughter? She was Rick's daughter, Jerry. She had options! That all ended because she felt sorry for you. You act like prey but you're a predator. You use pity to lure in your victims. It's how you survive. I survive because I know everything, that snake survives because children wander off, and you survive because people think, "Oh this poor piece of shit! He never gets a break. I can't stand the deafening wails of his wilted soul. I guess I'll hire him or marry him."''

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->''I took'' your ''family? Who do you think had more taken from them when you shot 20 cc cc's of liquid dream-killer into my daughter? She was Rick's daughter, Jerry. She had options! That all ended because she felt sorry for you. You act like prey but you're a predator. You use pity to lure in your victims. It's how you survive. I survive because I know everything, that snake survives because children wander off, and you survive because people think, "Oh this poor piece of shit! He never gets a break. I can't stand the deafening wails of his wilted soul. I guess I'll hire him or marry him."''
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->''I took your family? Who do you think had more taken from them when you shot 20 cc of liquid dream-killer into my daughter? She was Rick's daughter, Jerry. She had options! That all ended because she felt sorry for you. You act like prey but you're a predator. You use pity to lure in your victims. It's how you survive. I survive because I know everything, that snake survives because children wander off, and you survive because people think, "Oh this poor piece of shit! He never gets a break. I can't stand the deafening wails of his wilted soul. I guess I'll hire him or marry him."''

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->''I took took'' your family? ''family? Who do you think had more taken from them when you shot 20 cc of liquid dream-killer into my daughter? She was Rick's daughter, Jerry. She had options! That all ended because she felt sorry for you. You act like prey but you're a predator. You use pity to lure in your victims. It's how you survive. I survive because I know everything, that snake survives because children wander off, and you survive because people think, "Oh this poor piece of shit! He never gets a break. I can't stand the deafening wails of his wilted soul. I guess I'll hire him or marry him."''
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-->-- '''Christie Blatchford''', [[http://nationalpost.com/opinion/christie-blatchford-the-state-of-free-speech-dogs-nazi-salute-deemed-a-hate-crime here]]

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-->-- '''Christie Blatchford''', [[http://nationalpost.com/opinion/christie-blatchford-the-state-of-free-speech-dogs-nazi-salute-deemed-a-hate-crime here]]here]]

->''I took your family? Who do you think had more taken from them when you shot 20 cc of liquid dream-killer into my daughter? She was Rick's daughter, Jerry. She had options! That all ended because she felt sorry for you. You act like prey but you're a predator. You use pity to lure in your victims. It's how you survive. I survive because I know everything, that snake survives because children wander off, and you survive because people think, "Oh this poor piece of shit! He never gets a break. I can't stand the deafening wails of his wilted soul. I guess I'll hire him or marry him."''
-->-- '''Rick''' to '''Jerry Smith''', ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''
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-->-- '''Kyle''' on '''Eric Cartman''', ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''

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-->-- '''Kyle''' on '''Eric Cartman''', ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''

->Like London’s Metropolitan Police, Police Scotland divides offences into “hate crimes” and “hate incidents,” the latter defined as depending entirely on if the action “is [[UnreliableNarrator perceived]] by the victim or any person to be motivated by hate or prejudice.” (..)\\
Unlike beauty, which is in the eye of the beholder, hate is exclusively in the eye of the beheld.
-->-- '''Christie Blatchford''', [[http://nationalpost.com/opinion/christie-blatchford-the-state-of-free-speech-dogs-nazi-salute-deemed-a-hate-crime here]]
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->''Heidi, people like Cartman, they always make things someone else's fault. We all wrongly see ourselves as the victims sometimes, but Cartman sees himself as the victim all the time. He'll always find someone to blame for his shortcomings, and because of that, he's never gonna change.''
-->-- '''Kyle''' on '''Eric Cartman''', ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''

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