Victim Envy
1st March 2024
Jillian Becker writes of a phenomenon she calls Leidensneid. It’s a word she made up, one of those composite German terms that combine two other words, in this case “leiden” (to suffer) and “Neid” (envy).
Leidensneid is a part of virtue signaling and is particularly rampant on the left these days. But it’s been around for much longer than that.