ACCORDING to the Wikipedia, victim playing (also known as playing the victim, victim card, or self-victimisation) is the fabrication or exaggeration of victimhood for a variety to reasons such as to justify abuse to others, to manipulate others, to cope, to seek attention, or to diffuse responsibility. 

Manipulators often portray themselves as victims of circumstances or someone else’s behaviour in order to gain pity or sympathy or evoke compassion and thereby get something from someone. 

When an ordinary person is asked to describe their image of a typical victim, they often think of a little old lady who is weak, innocent and blameless.

Rosmah Mansor has claimed to be a victim after she was found to be guilty of corruption and sentenced to jail.

What sort of victimisation is she referring to? Is she a victim of political persecution?

Does she know who her oppressor or oppressors are?

She feels herself to have been unfairly treated, cheated, wronged.

If she is really a victim as she claims, Malaysians wish to advise her to name the people who are victimising her.

If she is truly found to be a victim, the people will campaign to seek a pardon from the Agong, as Umno members are allegedly doing for her husband Najib Razak..

The people will also petition the attorney-general for a discharge for her – like what he did for her son.

All she has to do is show us proof of how she was victimised. – September 2, 2022.

* FLK reads The Malaysian Insight.

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