Blaming the victim

reply to post by Partygirl


I think if we keep playing the blame game we will just keep going round in circles. We shouldn't be blaming anyone, just acknowledging the problems and then changing things so they don't happen again.

I do get what you are saying, but at the same time the whole idea of victimhood is destructive, because it disempowers the "victim". It is in itself a way of not accepting responsibility for your actions, because you are a victim it wasn't your fault.

Now as I said it does noone any good to point the victim and assign blame, so it doesn't necessarily have to be the "victim's" fault, but they can always learn from it and not let it happen to them again.

That said yes there are real issues out there that we need to start looking at and changing things in a big way so they don't keep happening - unemployment being a good example.