“The politics of victimology undermines our freedom and threatens us all. “Losing faith in your own willfulness and capacity to act, you eventually lose freedom,” noted an early critic of victim culture. “That was one lesson of totalitarianism, which succeeded by organizing masses of the disaffected, politically inactive, self-centered people who felt helpless and victimized, believed that they didn’t matter and sought ‘self-abandonment’ in the state.”

San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities by Michael Shellenberger