People have become waaaay to adept at pulling the victimhood card as soon as something either doesn't fit their narrative or disadvantages them. It needs to stop.
Yup. "Victimize" means to take advantage of someone (i.e. make an actual victim of them), it doesn't mean to make them out to be a victim when they aren't.
Sure, there are different levels of trauma in different incidents.
That doesn't make the less-obviously traumatic incidents okay; they're still very bad.
> It's insulting to victims of the former to pretend otherwise.
There's nothing insulting to victims in acknowledging other victims. There is something extremely insulting to victims in refusing to acknowledge any harm to them if it doesn't meet your arbitrary standard for significance.
If the allegations are true (they murdered women and a child and blew off the limbs of innocent men women and children) then they are not victims, they are criminals.
Saying they are victims and suggesting that pity be given them is wrong. It insults the real victims in this tragedy.
The language of victimization is dangerous. There was a time when it might have seemed liberatory when applied to "marginalized" populations but the categorical imperative always gets you in the end...
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