Sometimes, the victim is *also* to blame. When shitty policies are part of the root cause, then yes, the victim also shares in creating an environment that all

Sometimes, the victim is *also* to blame. When shitty policies are part of the root cause, then yes, the victim also shares in creating an environment that allowed easy victimization. You wouldn't secure your laptop in the front seat of a car in NYC or Chicago. Just as you are not to blame with the vandalization and theft of said equipment, you also could have did easy mitigations to hamper it. People who shout "victim blaming" are also refusing to take responsibility for reasonable remediations that would have prevented the bad thing.