WTF is this shit? Blame the victimhood?
If you’re living in an unjust world, the solution might not actually come from within; perhaps we could modify it somehow?
Don’t bet the farm on findings from psychology.
If you’re living in an unjust world, the solution might not actually come from within; perhaps we could modify it somehow?
Don’t bet the farm on findings from psychology.
Who is telling people that they are victims? Who thinks that being a victim means that it's 100% outside of that person's control?
These are the straw-men that so many dumb comments here are based on. There are real victims in the world and most of the time they're just trying to tell their stories, only to get constant derision from idiots in cesspools like Hacker News.
just to name two examples: many feminists are telling women that they are oppressed (=victimized) by "the patriarchy" and a lot of people are claiming that black people are still systemically oppressed (=victimized) in the USA.
I'm not claiming that those examples are true or false, I want to show that this is not a straw man.
> There are real victims in the world
indeed there are but this article (and the comments) are not about them.
This framing has nothing to do with individual psychology, it’s trying to make a political point.