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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 39 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

“It’s unclear if there is an official Hierarchy of Victimhood for animals,” Outkick bleats. “There is for humans. Transgender persons sit atop. Straight white Christian men sit at the bottom, almost buried beneath the pyramid.”

Pfffft. What a hypocrite. Whining about trans people's immense victimhood, while using the exact same metaphor to imply that, in fact, HE is the most victimized of all by not even being allowed to be the victim. By being "buried beneath the pyramid" of victimhood. Bahahahaha. The cognitive dissonance is incredible.

And buddy... That "Christian" part is apparently doing a lot of heavy lifting on your victim complex, my guy. Plenty of us straight white men get by without being under constant attack. If everyone around you seems like an asshole, maybe you're the asshole. And maybe if you acted a little more Christ-like, you'd give people less reason to attack you and you'd make more friends with different kinds of people.

[–] HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The problem in his view, as best I can tell, is that there is a natural hierarchy, that he belongs on top of telling everyone else what to do, and any upset of this natural hierarchy is oppressing him. He may not have thought this out in so many words, but it's a hypothesis that seems to make accurate predictions about what people in his reference class will do and say.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh, definitely. Conservatives are all about social hierarchies and how it’s the only ‘natural’ form of society. Anyone trying to ‘rise above their place’ or help someone do so is an enemy to be destroyed, lest they cause the collapse of society as we know it.

[–] HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 7 points 5 months ago

And neveryoumind if society as we know it is a mighty pile of suck for people not at the top. Shoulda been born rich white christian cishet males.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 2 points 5 months ago

honestly from the way he talks I can't tell if hes a top or a bottom and which he actually prefers.

[–] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Straight white Christian men sit at the bottom, almost buried beneath the pyramid

Like a Pharaoh? Buried with concubines and unimaginable riches and feasts in an elaborate sarcophagus? Under a monument built on the backs of thousands of slaves and their suffering and death? Yeah, okay, that tracks.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 2 points 5 months ago

Except that the pyramid builders weren't slaves

[–] oo1@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago

billionaires lives are made near unliveable by the evil tax system that exploits all their hard work to benefit the lazy
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