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The Poison of "I'm A Victim" Politics.
The Ugly Logic of Us vs. Them
By Jonah Goldberg
I'm an Internet columnist, and my e-mail in-box regularly provides evidence that measures like hate-crime laws, slave reparations proposals, and the general politics of victimology will ultimately lead to ill.
For instance, I've received scads of e-mails about Jesse Dirkhising, the 13-year-old Arkansas boy who was horribly raped and tortured over a two-day period in 1999. He was tied up by two homosexual "lovers" 22 and 38, who stuffed Jesse's mouth with his own underwear, secured the gag with duct tape, tied him to the bed, and then repeatedly sodomized him in various ways. The boy eventually ...
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