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Victim blaming is an ideal that often forgets to factor in realities. Theoretically, you should be able to walk into a Hell's Angels biker bar at 11pm on a Sat
by yason 11y ago
Victim blaming is an ideal that often forgets to factor in realities.
Theoretically, you should be able to walk into a Hell's Angels biker bar at 11pm on a Saturday evening and shout aloud "Only assholes ride a Harley!", then walk out. Theoretically you don't pose a credible threat to anyone and you merely state your opinion. In an ideally perfect world you should have nothing to worry about. But it just might be the most stupid thing you can do in ten seconds.
There's a difference between saying the consequences are completely the victim's fault versus thinking that the victim should have a license to do stupid things and yet get away with it against some, if not all, odds.
What happened to the guy who got his money confiscated is completely unfair but there was a wide range of choices he could've realistically made to avoid the unfairness from taking place. That's not victim blaming.
- teddyh 11y agoSuppose there’s political and societal pressure to do X, and a person (for their own reasons, which may be ethical or political) instead does an alternative thing Y, all also perfectly legal and ethical. Then suppose that this person gets in unreasonable amounts of trouble by the political and societal pressure. To then say, in effect, “But they could have done X instead, why do they have to be so difficult?” is blaming the victim.