The perfect victim is the victim of a crime or wrongdoing who has nothing “wrong” with them, like a police record.
To be a perfect victim in the White American edition you need at least three of the four following qualities:
- white
- defenceless – women, children and old men are presumed to be defenceless
- innocent – no police record or committing a crime at the time, no out-of-wedlock births, etc.
- not a victim of White American power
This is just my rough guess, so let us see how it works in practice:
Jews who died in the Holocaust:
- white – check
- defenceless – check
- innocent – check
- not a victim of White American power – check
A perfect four! We must never forget!
Africans who died in the Middle Passage:
- white – ERROR
- defenceless – check
- innocent – check
- not a victim of White American power – ERROR
Only two points. These you must “get over” otherwise you will become Stuck In The Past.
Missing White Women:
- white – check
- defenceless – check
- innocent – check
- not a victim of White American power – check
Cool! Extra points for being young, good-looking and coming from a well-to-do family. Carry on.
Trayvon Martin:
- white – ERROR
- defenceless – check
- innocent – check
- not a victim of White American power – check
Three points: pretty good, but he needs strong support. Fortunately he is a perfect victim to blacks. If he had a police record or was a year older or was shot by the police, this one would be no-go beyond the black community.
Note on black men: Because whites see them as somehow dangerous even when unarmed and racially profile them as criminals, they rarely score above 1.0.
Dead Iraqi Children as shown on Al Jazeera television:
- white – ERROR
- defenceless – check
- innocent – check
- not a victim of White American power – ERROR
Too bad. The same goes for Dead Palestinian Children since Israeli power is seen as part of American power. To Arabs, though, these are perfect victims.
Black African children in refugee camps:
- white – ERROR
- defenceless – check
- innocent – check
- not a victim of White American power – check
The last one counts as a check because most Americans do not understand how their country has screwed up Africa. But at a three these children need someone to push their case.
Now let these very same children go to a bad American public school in a poor black neighbourhood:
- white – ERROR
- defenceless – check
- innocent – check
- not a victim of White American power – ERROR
Or get killed by the police, like Aiyana Jones:
- white – ERROR
- defenceless – check
- innocent – check
- not a victim of White American power – ERROR
See how it works? They are no longer worthy of protection or concern by White Americans.
Rosa Parks:
- white – ERROR
- defenceless – check
- innocent – check
- not a victim of White American power – ERROR/check
In the North she was a three because whites there could disown Jim Crow rule in the South. But again, she needed strong support, which required her to be a perfect victim to blacks, which she was.
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