[Ads-l] Victimhood Olympics (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

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22 Jun 2013 _Financial Times_ (London) Section: FT MAGAZINE Page: 11 (posted online 21 Jun)
"But rather than move on, having an argument, they prefer to seek reassurance in the comfortable cloak of the dispossessed. In the victimhood Olympics they refuse to be also-rans."

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> Am I the only one who hasn't heard of the Victimhood Olympics? How long has=  this been around?
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> I see it occurs in the book Victims and Victimhood, by Trudy Govier, publis= hed in 2015.
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> It doesn't occur in Google ngram viewer. Online, the oldest mention I found  was from Jun 26, 2014:
> http://www.goingyourownway.com/mgtow-lounge-deprecated/victimhood-olympics-
> modern-workplace-2153/
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> Antedating is invited; this seems recent enough that there might be an identifiable coiner.
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