Stockholm syndrome: Georgetown student mugged at gunpoint but sympathizes with his attackers
We feel bad for mocking Oliver Friedfeld, who, judging from his LinkedIn profile, looks like he’s truly dedicated to social justice.
But seriously, man, get off your cross. We need the wood.
Last week, Friedfeld, a senior at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, wrote an opinion piece in The Hoya in which he recounted how he’d been mugged by “two kids” and said he was totally cool with it.
“Who am I to stand from my perch of privilege,” Friedfeld wrote, “surrounded by million-dollar homes and paying for a $60,000 education, to condemn these young men as ‘thugs?’ It’s precisely this kind of ‘otherization’ that fuels the problem.”
“Until we do so, we should get comfortable with sporadic muggings and break-ins,” he wrote.
He continues: “When we play along with a system that fuels this kind of desperation, we can’t be surprised when we’re touched by it. Maybe these two kids are caught, and this recent crime wave dies down, but it will return because the demand is still there, and the supply is still here. We have a lot, and plenty of opportunities to make even more. They have very little, and few opportunities to make ends meet.”
According to his LinkedIn profile, Friedfeld has volunteered at a soup kitchen and taught English to day laborers and Hispanic immigrants.
Despite this exposure to the less fortunate, in his opinion piece he “otherizes” the poor in a different way, as a group of people who are somehow less capable of making moral decisions.
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But seriously, man, get off your cross. We need the wood.
Last week, Friedfeld, a senior at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, wrote an opinion piece in The Hoya in which he recounted how he’d been mugged by “two kids” and said he was totally cool with it.
“Who am I to stand from my perch of privilege,” Friedfeld wrote, “surrounded by million-dollar homes and paying for a $60,000 education, to condemn these young men as ‘thugs?’ It’s precisely this kind of ‘otherization’ that fuels the problem.”
“Until we do so, we should get comfortable with sporadic muggings and break-ins,” he wrote.
He continues: “When we play along with a system that fuels this kind of desperation, we can’t be surprised when we’re touched by it. Maybe these two kids are caught, and this recent crime wave dies down, but it will return because the demand is still there, and the supply is still here. We have a lot, and plenty of opportunities to make even more. They have very little, and few opportunities to make ends meet.”
According to his LinkedIn profile, Friedfeld has volunteered at a soup kitchen and taught English to day laborers and Hispanic immigrants.
Despite this exposure to the less fortunate, in his opinion piece he “otherizes” the poor in a different way, as a group of people who are somehow less capable of making moral decisions.
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