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    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018...d-culture.html


    Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said in a rare public appearance Thursday he’s exhausted with how everyone seems to consider themselves a victim these days.


    “At some point, we’re going to be fatigued with everybody being the victim,” Thomas, the second African American to serve on the Supreme Court, said during an on-stage interview at the Library of Congress in Washington.


    Thomas, a conservative appointed to the bench in 1990 by President George H.W. Bush, recalled recently being with a young black woman in Kansas who told him, “I’m really tired of having to play the role of being black. I just want to go to school.”




    “I just get worn down,” Thomas said.


    The justice said his grandfather had a tough life but never considered himself a victim.






    “When I was a kid, there were tons of people who were in really bad circumstances,” Thomas said. “My grandfather would not let us wallow in that.”


    Thomas added: “He’s my hero. He’s the single greatest human being I’ve ever met. With nine months of education. But he never saw himself as a victim.”


    The Daily Caller first drew attention to Thomas’ remarks on victimhood.


    During his remarks, Thomas – who faced a bruising confirmation battle when appointed to the high court – lamented the confirmation process for judges, saying it may cause good people to forgo serving. Thomas’s nomination was nearly derailed after facing accusations from a former assistant, Anita Hill, that he sexually harassed her. Thomas denied the allegations.


    “I don’t think the process is what it ought to be,” Thomas said. “I think that these are serious jobs, and they should be serious. I don’t think they should become spectacles.”


    Thomas said he was confirmed five times in ten years for judicial roles and “it got increasingly worse.”


    “This is not the Roman Colosseum,” he said. “We’re not gladiators. And I think we’re going to lose some of our best people who choose not to go through the ordeal. They don’t want to have to fight the lion in order to be a judge or to be in government. And I think it’s our own fault for allowing this to happen.”
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    If more people in this country thought like Justice Thomas, we would all be better off. For some reason unknown to me, everyone seems to be playing a game of who can be the bigger victim. This is a dangerous game. If you aren't the victim, you're obviously the perpetrator (i.e. white, Christian, conservative male), right? That's how these social justice warriors see it anyhow.

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    Amen!
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    The primary reason there are so many "victims" is the government doles out money and freebies to "victims"
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    We have made weakness a virtue, which seems to me not only an obviously bad idea, but counter to the natural instincts of every animal. Many crave pity over respect, which just can't be healthy.


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    Quote Originally Posted by dissimulo View Post
    We have made weakness a virtue, which seems to me not only an obviously bad idea, but counter to the natural instincts of every animal. Many crave pity over respect, which just can't be healthy.
    Yes. People always trying to play the "victim" card is a sign of weakness not strength and not deserving of respect in most cases.

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    The nature of victimizers/victims is not supposed to be lived out as if it is their very state of being. Everyone of us is supposed to be an UNwilling victimizer and UNwilling victim; and truly, for me to make you my victim? First you must believe it is possible and then you have to let me do it to you! Otherwise it's not possible. Well, not here. Intellectually YES you may be victimized and YES there may be a time your life whereby you act to then victimize another but then how does "victimization" ever then become your state of being???

    I had a Paris of Judgement joke but it seems it was erased. What, my phone victimized me? I'm sure somebody in Hollywood or France believes it.

    Good to hear Thomas speaking out. Victimization has been exhausting me since early 1973.

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