The monotheistic religions made it normal to squash people: "I think there is something really special about the Bible [...] which is precisely this idea that the revelation of truth comes through the suffering of the weak." (Matthieu Poupart)

Then the Renaissance made it easier to blame the victim: With modernity, "it is the person who takes no initiative who is seen as responsible for the emergence of sexual promiscuity." (Matthieu Poupart)

#EstelleSays #longThread 🧶

#truth #revelation #believe #beliefs #empathy #feminism #quotes #blameTheVictim #maleSupremacy #manliness #patriarchy #misogyny #relationships #sociology #religion #catholic #christianity #jewishness #jewish #squash #flatten #crush #agressions #agressive #agressivity #supremacy #rapeCulture #brutalization #modernity #Renaissance #history #intellectualHistory #historyOfHumanThought #historyOfPhilosophy #normal #normality #heteronormativity #weak #weakness #incest #incestCulture

Cyprus court drops all rape charges against 5 Israelis after doubting British woman's credibility | AP News apnews.com/article/cypr... #blamethevictim

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“Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships.”
― Andrea Dworkin in her book, Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics 🧶

#beliefs #empathy #feminism #quotes #blameTheVictim #maleSupremacy #patriarchy #misogyny #relationships #sociology

@samlitzinger #BlameTheVictim #fuckFuckFUCKtheGOP

@MaierAmsden @austinkocher #BlameTheVictim

@AliceMarshall "Anger at the Dems political campaigns and consultants who brought us this disaster." #BlameTheVictim

"Israeli atrocities are nothing new. The only novelty is the scale"

Joseph Massad: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israeli-atrocities-are-nothing-new-only-novelty-scale

#trauma #PTSD #genocide #fragility #blameTheVictim #victimhood #Zionism #israel #Gaza #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #raceMaking #believe #history #Gaza #IDF #military #army #OngoingNakba #revenge #retribution #war #warOnGaza #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #PalestinianLivesMatter #genocide #counterTerrorism #stateTerrorism #GazaGenocide #StopArmingIsrael #CeasefireNow #StopFundingIsrael #DefundIsrael

"This is a confession. I love daytime TV. I smoke, even though I officially gave up years ago. I’m often late, and usually lie about why. And sometimes I feel good when others feel bad.

"The Japanese have a saying: “The misfortunes of others taste like honey.” […] In Hebrew enjoying other people’s catastrophes is 'simcha la‑ed'."

Excerpts from the #book #Schadenfreude by Tiffany Watt Smith: https://web.archive.org/web/20190606171225/https://lithub.com/not-just-a-german-word-a-brief-history-of-schadenfreude/ @psychology @bookstodon

#pity #failures #empathy #envy #emotionality #frustration #discomfort #tonePolicing #languagePolice #conversations #debates #blameTheVictim #grievability #mentalHealth #sadism #bondage #failures #joy #psychology #TiffanyWattSmith #bookStodon #wickedness

[…]

"Thousands of children were killed? It’s the enemy’s fault. Our own children were killed? That is certainly the enemy’s fault. If Hamas carry out a massacre in a kibbutz, they are Nazis. If we drop 2,000-pound bombs on refugee shelters and kill hundreds of civilians, it’s Hamas’s fault for hiding close to these shelters. After what they did to us, we have no choice but to root them out. After what we did to them, we can only imagine what they would do to us if we don’t destroy them. We simply have no choice."

Omer Bartov: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/israel-gaza-historian-omer-bartov

#trauma #PTSD #genocide #fragility #blameTheVictim #victimhood #Zionism #israel #Gaza #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #raceMaking #believe #OmerBartov #GazaWar #warOnGaza #IDF #military #army #OngoingNakba #revenge #retribution #war #warOnGaza #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #PalestinianLivesMatter #genocide #counterTerrorism #stateTerrorism #GazaGenocide #StopArmingIsrael #CeasefireNow #StopFundingIsrael #DefundIsrael

"Unlike the majority of @israel -is these young people had seen the destruction of #Gaza with their own eyes. It seemed to me that they had not only internalised a particular view that has become commonplace in Israel – namely, that the destruction of Gaza as such was a legitimate response to 7 October – but had also developed a way of thinking that I had observed many years ago when studying the conduct, worldview and self-perception of German army soldiers in the second world war. Having internalised certain views of the enemy – the Bolsheviks as Untermenschen; Hamas as human animals – and of the wider population as less than human and undeserving of rights, soldiers observing or perpetrating atrocities tend to ascribe them not to their own military, or to themselves, but to the enemy."
…

#trauma #ethnicCleansing #PTSD #genocide #fragility #blameTheVictim #victimhood #Zionism #israel #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #raceMaking #believe #IsraelGazaWar #war #warOnGaza #IDF #soldiers #army

Omer Bartov wrote about the need of Jewish Israelis to believe in their national morality and to nourish #victimhood: 🧶

"This is the logic of endless violence, a logic that allows one to destroy entire populations and to feel totally justified in doing so. It is a logic of victimhood – we must kill them before they kill us, as they did before – and nothing empowers violence more than a righteous sense of victimhood."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/israel-gaza-historian-omer-bartov

#trauma #ethnicCleansing #PTSD #genocide #fragility #blameTheVictim #Zionism #israel #Gaza #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #raceMaking #believe #OmerBartov #IsraelGazaWar #GazaWar #warOnGaza #IDF #military #army #sociology #domination #history #reputation

Uri Gordon said: "People aren’t born to dehumanize, right? People dehumanize because A, it comes at no cost, and B, because they are given frameworks of thinking that encourage them to do that. I think we should think about it the same way as you know, maybe a lot of the American mainstream public was dehumanizing Afghans and Iraqis earlier this century, to me dehumanizing mentalities are a sort of discursive symptom of actual power imbalances. It's a mechanism for people to self-legitimate, to give themselves some kind of way of reconciling their desired self-image as good people with the fact that atrocities are being committed in their name. And the way to reconcile that is to portray the victims of those atrocities as uniformly threatening, menacing, dangerous enemies who are forever ill-disposed to agreement and motivated by hatred and by anti-Semitism and the rest of it, which can become a self-fulfilling prophecy."

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/mohammed-bamyeh-uri-gordon-the-no-state-solution

#blameTheVictim #anarchism #genocide

toronto police officer who maimed a cyclist with their squad car gets away with it, must be a day ending in Y: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/siu-toronto-police-collision-cyclist-february-1.7223919 #AbolishThePolice #BlameTheVictim

Asking people to calm down protects privilege – and silences people who are hurting.

Tone policing: https://everydayfeminism.com/2015/12/tone-policing-and-privilege/

#emotionality #frustration #discomfort #tonePolicing #RobotHugs #languagePolice #conversations #debates #blameTheVictim #adultSupremacy #manliness #humor #humour #feminism #empathy #grievability #mentalHealth #school #adultDomination #adultism #maleSupremacy #adults #patriarchy #whiteSupremacy #JKRowling #transGender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #transPhobia #transLaw

#Merchan tears apart #Trump’s arguments against #AlvinBragg’s request for the expanded #GagOrder:

“Defendant, in his opposition of April 1, 2024, desperately attempts to justify & explain away his #dangerous rhetoric by ‘turning the tables’ & blaming those he attacks [typical of Trump to #BlameTheVictim]. The arguments counsel makes are at best strained & at worst baseless misrepresentations which are uncorroborated & rely upon innuendo & exaggeration.

#law #StochasticTerrorism

If you show the value of a victim, you feel empathy. This increases the desire for equality but you feel bad: it endangers your health.

On the contrary, iIf you stress the mistake of a victim, you protect yourself: you feel like it should not happen to you. Society supports such detachment if the perpetrator is a white man or a police(wo)man.
Blaming the victim justifies inequality, discriminations, violence by the strongest. It normalizes (adult, white, male or cis) privileges. Therefore it normalizes patriarchy and white supremacy.

#blameTheVictim #Hamas #Gaza #ongoingNakba #rapeCulture #adultSupremacy #manliness #EstelleSays #humor #humour #feminism #empathy #grievability #mentalHealth #family #adultDomination #adultism #maleSupremacy #adults #domesticViolence #patriarchy #whiteSupremacy

@karelbrits Verkeersveiligheid in België: #blamethevictim

@pimjoosten @roelgrif Au. Ik heb écht mijn stinkende best gedaan om geen corona te krijgen. Maar goed, ik begrijp nu dat het mijn eigen keuze is dat ik het nu toch heb omdat ik zo nodig bij mijn man wilde blijven die in het onderwijs werkt. Ja, dan vraag je er eigenlijk ook om, hè? #blamethevictim
[Toevoeging: hij is direct na zijn positieve test in isolatie gegaan]

The story is actually not too bad -- places the blame squarely on the train company's unwillingness to give a damn about bears -- but the headline is a horrible set up. #Grizzlies #BlameTheVictim
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/11/04/63-grizzlies-some-drunk-on-fermented-grain-killed-by-trains-in-montana/

@112inBeeld Dat klinkt alsof de personenauto stil stond en de scooterrijdster iets heel bijzonders kan! Op de foto lijkt het eerder dat de bestuurder van de auto de scooterrijdster, die op een #voorrangsweg reed, geen #voorrang gaf en aanreed... #WaarIsDeChauffeur #BlameTheVictim #verkeersgeweld