Ep. 1303 The Rise of Victimhood Culture
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Jason Manning, a professor of sociology at West Virginia University, has accomplished a feat I could never have matched: he's co-authored a scholarly and dispassionate overview of what he calls "victimhood culture," particularly as manifested on college campuses. He traces the origins of the phenomenon and the hysteria, exaggeration, one-sidedness, and intolerance that accompanies it. And he takes the discipline of sociology itself -- at least as studied and promoted today -- for cheerleading for a point of view rather than offering dispassionate analysis.
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| 0:29.6 | Woods at checkout. Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here. Today's topic, well, I guess the book we're discussing |
| 0:36.2 | speaks for itself. The Rise of Victimhood |
| 0:39.0 | Culture, Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars by Bradley Campbell and our guest |
| 0:45.8 | today, Jason Manning. Jason Manning holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Virginia, |
| 0:51.3 | and he teaches sociology at West Virginia University. |
| 0:55.5 | Jason, welcome to the show. |
| 0:56.9 | All right, thank you. |
| 0:57.9 | All right, this is an interesting book because what you've done in here, well, of course, |
| 1:03.0 | you're well aware of what you've done, but one particular thing you've done is you've taken |
| 1:06.5 | an extremely contentious topic, and you've somehow managed to discuss it as dispassionately as |
| 1:13.8 | I've ever seen it discussed. |
| 1:15.7 | You really, even though, you know, you do have a point of view about it, you really are |
| 1:20.3 | adopting the language and ideas. |
| 1:22.9 | And one would hope, in a way, kind of the detachment of the kind of social scientist we would all like to see examining this kind of question. |
| 1:31.1 | So, first of all, congratulations on being able to do that, because I'm not sure I could have duplicated that feat. |
| 1:37.4 | Thank you very much. |
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