The problem is that this 'being identified with the victim' can come to be used as an arm with which to club others. The victims become the group of the 'righteous just' in order to exclude the poor Pharisees, who are never in short supply as the butts of easy mockery. (18).

Faith Beyond Resentment: fragments catholic and gay (2001) - "The man blind from birth and the Creator's subversion of sin"