VDH Weighs In On America's Pernicious Victims R Us Mentality

In his words:

America’s impoverished ancestors at 15 years of age may have rounded Cape Horn on a schooner or ridden bareback over the Rockies. 

Not today’s therapeutic college youth. They have been so victimized by racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, and other -isms and -phobias that colleges often provide them “safe spaces,” outlaw “microaggressions” and demand “trigger warnings” to avoid the un-nice. 

What would our grandfathers think?

As teenagers on D-Day, they found no safe spaces on Omaha Beach. A storm of steel from thousands of SS killers proved more than a “microaggression” at the Battle of the Bulge. Generals did not give their freezing GIs mere “trigger warnings” about a half-million Chinese Red Army soldiers crossing the Yalu River during the Korean War. 

American victimhood is the luxury of an affluent, secure, and leisured postmodern society that can afford such silly indulgences.

To which I would add this: American victimhood is the product of both Marxist doctrine, which inevitably leads to failed societies, and societal decadence on par with the sort that helped topple the Roman empire.