The pointless endeavor of comparing different tragedies or histories of oppression to one another by attempting to quantify the suffering and/or injustice of each, so as to determine which tragedy was more tragic, or which oppressed peoples were more unjustly oppressed.

Jamie: Did you heard about the bombing in Boston?
Frank: The Arab world suffers violence like this every day as a result of US foreign policy.
Jamie: ...let's not play the Suffering Olympics.

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Alan: The fight for LGBT rights is this generation's great civil rights movement.
Rob: Their is no comparison between the struggles African-Americans faced and the struggle of the LGBT community.
Allison: Neither compare to the struggle women have faced.
Alan: Do we really need to play the Suffering Olympics?

the suffering olympics by Delphinidae Rex April 17, 2013

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Suffering Expert

A person that is so adept at suffering that they have decided to do it for a living.

For your information, I am the Suffering Expert, so don’t you tell ME how to suffer!

Suffering Expert by Dr Bunnygirl September 12, 2019

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School For Advanced Suffering

The name students of Special Forces Assessment and Selection 'lovingly' refer to it as. Three weeks of hell that includes: running, ruck marching, land navigation, and the dreaded Team Week.

Also the first step in soldiers' training to become US Army Special Forces soldiers, known as the Green Berets.

I'm so glad we somehow made it through the School For Advanced Suffering.

Wow! You did? Did you get selected there?

I did.

School For Advanced Suffering by studentofthegame May 15, 2011

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