Let me define my understanding of the concept of perpetual victimhood. A group of people either by nationality, ethnic, racial or religion internalized the injustice experienced a percentage of them to be injustice done to all of them eternally and passes down from generation to generation. And those who did the injustice will have their entire group eternally carries the same crime from generation to generation.
My stance is that I don't subscribe to it. It is a cycle of indefensible hate for another based solely on the person's associations. And many time that association is not by choice, rather by circumstance beyond reasonable control.
It also creates enemies where none are to be found. For victims to exist there must be victimizers. This forces the victims to project innocent people as their victimizers based on association.
Because this is inter-generational, the victims are people who have never experience the injustice on an individual level. They just take the experience of injustice as their own and force others to accept likewise whether others want to or not. This leave the next generation of "victims" forever demanding restitution and apologies. And the next generation of "victimizers" forever paying recompense and apologizing for acts they never do.
Perpetual victimhood only stumbles the future generations from moving forward. And it absolutely destroys the chance of reconciliation. I'm not for forgetting the past but for removing inter-generational internalization of injustice.
The sins of the father is not the sins of the son. This is not justice. It the exact opposite.
I do not have to ask forgiveness on other's behalf as I want not an apology from a person on another's behalf.
My stance is that I don't subscribe to it. It is a cycle of indefensible hate for another based solely on the person's associations. And many time that association is not by choice, rather by circumstance beyond reasonable control.
It also creates enemies where none are to be found. For victims to exist there must be victimizers. This forces the victims to project innocent people as their victimizers based on association.
Because this is inter-generational, the victims are people who have never experience the injustice on an individual level. They just take the experience of injustice as their own and force others to accept likewise whether others want to or not. This leave the next generation of "victims" forever demanding restitution and apologies. And the next generation of "victimizers" forever paying recompense and apologizing for acts they never do.
Perpetual victimhood only stumbles the future generations from moving forward. And it absolutely destroys the chance of reconciliation. I'm not for forgetting the past but for removing inter-generational internalization of injustice.
The sins of the father is not the sins of the son. This is not justice. It the exact opposite.
I do not have to ask forgiveness on other's behalf as I want not an apology from a person on another's behalf.