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Anecdotal hand-waving BS: Something I've noticed over the last several years are people who feel so victimized in some way that they actually begin acting like
by DanielBMarkham 10y ago
Anecdotal hand-waving BS: Something I've noticed over the last several years are people who feel so victimized in some way that they actually begin acting like their victimizer. Gay people who anonymously act violently homophobic. Black people who paint KKK images on campus property. Weird.
I'd guess it's just a very small minority of people who are like that, but online, in aggregate form, it could turn into a significant number. It'd be interesting to see some stats about this.
- jshevek 10y agoAnd then you have people like Meg Lanker-Simons
- vox_mollis 10y agoRegarding your examples: Think less Stockholm Syndrome, more Agents Provocateur.
- Karunamon 10y agoAlso related, IMO, would be politicians vehemently campaigning against X (where X is marriage equality, sexual promiscuity, abortions, or otherwise some social wedge issue), and then it turns out that the politician was directly and hypocritically involved in X.