What is a victim? All of us can be considered victims in one way or another.
Some of us have been victims of circumstance.
Some have been victims of abuse.
Some have been victims of loveless families.
Others have been victims of love tearing us apart.
Some are victims of hardened hearts while others are victims of heartless calamity in their daily lives.
These are just a few victims that wish to assert themselves, make victims of others so they may feel the power and esteem of a pernicious assailant.
So why is it important to understand that there are victims among us? When victims are tired of being victims, they rise and retailiate with the fervor of a death match. Victims that raise up to assert themselves are out to vanquish rather than simply assert. There is no negotiating or communicating with a people that rise abruptly from victimdom.
Repeatedly there have been allegations of SEIU Local 250 victimizing us for the past 15 years. Victimization in this case is solely a mental state. How can you rationally view a union as a victimizer of a workforce. Rationally is the key word here. Only a victim can respond without decent reason. Decent reason does not include what politicians are endorsed, what initiatives are supported, how contracts did not go enough in the favor of the members, costs of dues (business). How were we victimized? Were we enslaved by 250? I don't remember ever being harmed by 250. I cannot see myself or any of us victims, in a literal sense, of SEIU Local 250.
Well, if I can't come to terms that I've been victimized in life, it only makes sense that I would find some entity at work to be my potential victimizer. After all, I need a cause to cry "I've been victimized" over, if I have no other excuse to explain my inaction in dealing with tasks at hand. It's worked well for others.
