Critiques of victim-identification culture span opposed political positions

Evidence

Here, then, is the first part of our second antinomy of the therapeutic imaginary: there is an excessive tendency amongst many subjects today to identify as victims of abuse. It is important to note at this point that I am not conflating Kipnis’s argument with that of Ecclestone and Hayes. Whereas their position ultimately amounts to a call for the restoration of older models of authority, Kipnis is more of a left-libertarian who deplores the moralising authoritarianism that has spread so pervasively through American student politics. At no point does Kipnis underplay the suffering caused by actual abuse, or imply that the “survivors” of such abuse should button up and get on with it. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1938

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the ‘therapeutic imaginary’ antinomy and distinguishes the left-libertarian (Kipnis) from restorationist-conservative (Ecclestone and Hayes) critiques of survivor identity politics.
• XREF: connects to: Visible minority identity blocks victims’ comforting assumption of random victimization. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 362; Postmodern oppositional identifications are weaker than modernist class antagonisms — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 257; Ethnocentric and anti-democratic attitudes sometimes coexisted with left-leaning political views — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 495 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Support for digressive victimhood claims tracks outgroup prejudice. #exemplifies (0.81) — Felix Danbold, Ivuoma N. Onyeador, and Miguel M. Unzueta, Dominant groups support digressive…, 102
• Ethnocentric and anti-democratic attitudes sometimes coexisted with left-leaning political views #exemplifies (0.80) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 495
• Postmodern oppositional identifications are weaker than modernist class antagonisms #corroborates (0.78) — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 257
• Survey shifts in ideological self-identification measure symbolic meaning, not issue movement. #expands (0.76) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2081
• Prioritizing religious identity over concrete disadvantage distorts political analysis #exemplifies (0.75) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 772
• Culture means suspending objectification, yet criticism re-objectifies what it studies #exemplifies (0.74)
• Visible minority identity blocks victims’ comforting assumption of random victimization. #exemplifies (0.72) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 362