Victimhood is now so socially and psychologically desirable that sooner or later, everyone[i] will be a member of one or more victim groups.   A key step in the legitimization of victim status is recognition in academia, through the creation of "XYZ studies" courses at first, and later on recognition as a major, a department, and eventually graduate degrees, so that newly minted professors can be sown like seeds in the soil of academe.  "African-American studies" was the first and largest example, with departments, majors, and graduate degrees all over the nation.  But now we have something new, via Dan Jackson of Campus Reform: Oregon State University will offer a spring course on "fat studies" in order to teach students how "weight-based oppression" is a "social justice issue." According to a syllabus for the course obtained by Campus Reform, students will examine "body weight,...(Read Full Post)