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#IRLPrivateCitizenShamimaBegum
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#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianMatthewWeaver "They said she was lured to Syria in 2015 when she left east London as a 15-year-old GCSE student, along with two school friends."
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/21/shamima-begum-may-have-been-a-victim-of-child-trafficking-court-told
#PowerControlExploitationHumanTrafficking
Supplementary "Hijacking victimhood can work at multiple levels: it can manifest through usurping the experiences of marginalized groups (such as the reversal of victimhood; see Chouliaraki 2021), delegitimizing claims of marginalized groups, presenting nondominant groups as threats in the present or future, and portraying the political opposition as enablers of dangerous subaltern groups" (Barton Hronešová, J., & Kreiss, D., 2024, p.722).
Barton Hronešová, J., & Kreiss, D. (2024). 'Strategically Hijacking Victimhood: A Political Communication Strategy in the Discourse of Viktor Orbán and Donald Trump'. Perspectives on Politics, 22(3), 717-735.
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#TheoryVictimhoodHijacked
#TheorySubalternCounterpublics #TheoryPoliticsOfFearDangerousOther
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#OtheringHateXenophobia
#OtheringHateIslamophobiaAntiMuslim.