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One thing that the super-left-leaning, America hating, Tesla burning, bull nose-ring wearing, sign-wielding “protesters” seem to all have in common is that they identify themselves as suffering from maladies that make themselves “victims.”
While the above statement is only my opinion, it has been formed by taking note of what these “protesters” have had to say on camera.
More often than not, they start off the interview, after stating their pronouns, with “I suffer from.”
While compiling my research, I have had to separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak, especially with what I find on Tik Tok, because some of the comments and assertions made are clearly for shock value to get clicks. Those aside, there are plenty of examples I have found of social justice warriors who not only justify their bizarre behavior as being due their self-anointed victim status, but they also come with a laundry list of ailments from which they claim to suffer.
Protesters that have been kicked off college campuses have appeared on camera, wearing the black and white Islamic keffiyeh scarves, complaining their free speech rights have been violated and they are “victims” of Zionists who are the cause for their post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to flare.
For them, apparently, the mere sight of a Jew is enough for their “illness” to become triggered.
If the situation in Israel were not so dire, I would have to belly laugh at the footage of the same interview, the part that when pressed, the protesters couldn’t even explain who they thought the “Zionists” are; irony of all ironies, many of the protesters immediately turn to, “We’ll. their fascists, of course.”
This is not the only absurdity I have found while watching the hyperventilating left at their rallies, which are made to look “homespun,” like most of the attendees spontaneously saw a protest happening across the street from them and just had to stop at the local CVS to grab some posterboard and Crayola washable markers and join up!
Afterall, CVS might also have their prescription for Adderall ready.
It seems today that virtually anyone can identify as a victim of institutional racism, anti-anti-antisemitism, sexism, gender mis-identification, anti-diversity, to name a few, and they now suffer now from a variety of disorders including PTSD, a condition that once was only diagnosed in combat veterans or victims of spousal abuse.
It seems that, for some, just being offended by someone else’s religious affiliations or views, especially on sexuality, is enough to cause what was once termed in the military as “shell-shock.”
According to multiple news accounts, in some parts of the world, even something as everyday as being born can cause one to become a victim and give the person legal standing to sue their parents for recklessly having sex and not “consulting” the fetus on a potential abortion.
Snopes downplays those news stories as being largely misinformation, but Fox News, The Guardian and the BBC have all reported that an Indian man and Mumbai businessman, Raphael Samuel, did such a thing. His suit claims that his birth was so traumatic that he suffers from PTSD and, as a result, he should receive a check from his parents for life.
In their reporting, none of those news journalists found a physician willing to go on the record to explain how one might obtain consent from a baby still in-utero or any evidence that a human can remember, much less be traumatized by their own birth.
It turns out that for many of these people who claim victimhood-caused ailments, spun out of whole cloth, there are financial rewards.
A diagnosis of PTSD, as well as the recently-coined “Adult Spectrum Autism,” even come with rewards such as being awarded disability through the Social Security Administration.
A person battling cancer has to basically prove to the government that they and their spouse have no tangible assets, such as a home or car in their name, to receive disability assistance, but someone diagnosed with “Adult Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder” can get a free ride to college with the stroke of a physician’s pen.
To compound the problem, a person need not be diagnosed by a doctor, but can be diagnosed by a psycho-therapist, who then recommends medication that actual doctors seem to be willing to sign-off on for a script.
While I do not doubt that activist David Hogg was at Parkland High School on the day of the massacre, even being several buildings away from such a horrific event would be traumatizing; but I also have no doubt that Hogg has used his victimhood for gains he would have never seen, had it not been for the body count of his classmates.
It is also a fact Hogg parlayed his victimhood into a free education at Harvard University, something that Hogg’s mother, Rebecca Hogg, admitted in multiple press reports that the family could never have afforded Harvard before Parkland happened.
Talk about not letting a good tragedy go to waste.
Hogg now serves as vice chair of the Democratic National Committee and proudly proclaims in his official bio and X (formerly Twitter) account that he suffers from ADHD.
My critics will likely blather on that I suffer from paranoid delusions of conspiracy, but I will state that I see all of this, from awarding “participation trophies” in grade school, to manufacturing disease diagnoses, are just arrows in the quiver of those wanting to create generations of youth marching towards full acceptance of socialism.
I don’t know what the color of the pill is that they are taking, but some are clearly emptying the entire bottle. If I were the parent of a child that legitimately suffered from these ailments, it would make me angry to see people making a farce of my child’s condition.
Along the way, these people who think it is totally okay for the government to fund their entire life, have no more of a concept of how idleness can be traded for control than they do the fact that lithium mining is disastrous for the environment and is conducted, in many places of the world, by children in forced labor schemes.
Certainly, I will not make the stretch to opine this is all some evil plan being plotted by George Soros and Bill Gates, but I am pointing out what seems to be as obvious to me as the nose on my own face, that it seems a little odd that an alarming number of these people who call themselves “pro-socialist and social justice warriors” report to be suffering from the same illnesses.
Scott Hudson is the Senior Investigative Reporter, Editorial Page Editor and weekly columnist for The Augusta Press. Reach him at scott@theaugustapress.com
