Concerning everyday life:
■ A Pulitzer Prize–winning conservative commentator (Will, 1998, p. 42) titled his syndicated column opposing the Clinton administration’s antismoking campaign as “President feeds the culture of victimology.”
■ One journalist (Parker, 1999, p. B10) even insisted that “Americans are fed up with twentieth-century victimology.”
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