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Hop103 posted...

It is, victim blaming isn't an incitement to violence or defamation.

Victim blaming is really just saying "I think they did things that increased the likelihood of their own victimization, so they bear at least some of the responsibility for what happened to them."

But a lot of people take that a step farther, and effectively add "...so I have no sympathy for them because they deserved it", or "...and because they were responsible for their own behavior, that makes the person who victimized them less responsible", which is where people start to call bullshit.

And since this is the Internet, everyone immediately leaps to the most extreme assumptions about motive and then overreact in dramatic fashion, so "victim blaming" obviously makes you worse than Hitler.


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