” … While the victim hierarchy is a contentious matter, as players constantly jockey for position, victimhood itself is now such a high stakes game that inventive types are seeking to have their claims backdated. The irony of non-slaves seeking to profit from ancestral slavery via those who were never slave owners is difficult to ignore.
But then, victimhood is big business—literally. In fact, it is probably easier to compile a list of brands which aren’t queuing up to extract money from professed alignment with the cause du jour, whether it be Gillette’s close shave with ‘toxic masculinity,’ Ben & Jerry’s flirtation with gay marriage, or Bud Light’s shift to transgenderism.”
