Anti Opfer. Warum wir Verletzlichkeit verachten

Reading and discussion with Alice Hasters, moderated by Lotta Mayer

True Victims, False Victims, Anti-Victims—everywhere we hear talk of “victims.” Yet increasingly, this term no longer refers to people who have suffered injustice. Rather, it refers to those who disrupt harmony, who are considered soft, who drag others down, or who seek to place themselves above others. In her new book *Anti-Victim: Why We Despise Vulnerability*, Alice Hasters describes a cultural shift that is no coincidence that it coincides with a resurgence of authoritarianism and fascism. What happens to a society in which sensitivity is considered elitist? And the right of the stronger is seen as authentic? With intellectual restlessness, she contrasts the spread of this new harshness with the political power of solidarity. Alice Hasters lives in Berlin as an author and journalist. On the podcast “Feuer & Brot,” she speaks with Maxi Häcke about feminism and pop culture. Her debut book, “What White People Don’t Want to Hear About Racism, But Should Know,” was published in 2019; in 2020, she was named Cultural Journalist of the Year.

An event as part of the Stuttgart Book Weeks and in cooperation with the Baden-Württemberg Regional Association of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association (Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels Landesverband Baden-Württemberg e. V.).