Darryl Byram

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The valorization of victimhood and a Theoretical approach that fixates on how power oppresses and marginalizes go hand-in-hand. Victims vindicate the Theory, thus gaining status with those who subscribe to it. The moral imperative is to protect marginalized people from the nonobvious forms of harm contained in attitudes and discourses.
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
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