Post by Ozarks Tom on Mar 25, 2024 12:23:43 GMT
Daniel Greenfield (Sultan Knish) explains how horrendous atrocities are justified in the minds of the doers.
A couple things come to mind that he didn't explicitly say. One, Islam's hatred of Jews and Christians can be traced back to the rejection by those religions of Mohammad, hence his decree they must all be killed. A terrible injustice in his demented mind.
Also, when you apply this reasoning to today's overly-lenient justice systems in blue cities and states, you see how those AG's & DA's rationalize the supposed plight of the villains versus the crimes they commit, excusing them as being victims of society at large.
At the heart of everything from the debate over the Gaza War to DEI to toxic interpersonal relationships is a disastrous loop known as the “self-reinforcing victim/villain” cycle.
The self-reinforcing victim/villain cycle is a deceptively simple and incredibly destructive paradigm for any kind of relationship, national, communal or personal, in which one party constantly attacks the other while claiming that it is the victim fighting against oppression.
The paradigm is guided by the idea that there is a permanently fixed victim and villain, that the victim is constantly suffering attacks from the villain and that anything the victim does is justified because he or she has no agency except to resist the assaults of the villain.
While some Hamas supporters have lied or tried to cover up the atrocities of Oct 7, Ghazi Hammad, a Hamas official, initially denied them, but then burst out with, “the existence of Israel is what causes all that pain, blood, and tears. It is Israel, not us. We are the victims of the occupation. Period. Therefore, nobody should blame us for the things we do. On October 7, October 10, October 1,000,000 – everything we do is justified.”
www.danielgreenfield.org/2024/03/we-are-victims-and-everything-we-do-is.html?utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Daniel+Greenfield+Article%3A+We+Are+the+Victims+and+Everything+We+Do+is+Justified&utm_campaign=20240324_m180259909_Daniel+Greenfield+Article%3A+%28post_title%29&utm_term=We+Are+the+Victims+and+Everything+We+Do+is+Justified
The self-reinforcing victim/villain cycle is a deceptively simple and incredibly destructive paradigm for any kind of relationship, national, communal or personal, in which one party constantly attacks the other while claiming that it is the victim fighting against oppression.
The paradigm is guided by the idea that there is a permanently fixed victim and villain, that the victim is constantly suffering attacks from the villain and that anything the victim does is justified because he or she has no agency except to resist the assaults of the villain.
While some Hamas supporters have lied or tried to cover up the atrocities of Oct 7, Ghazi Hammad, a Hamas official, initially denied them, but then burst out with, “the existence of Israel is what causes all that pain, blood, and tears. It is Israel, not us. We are the victims of the occupation. Period. Therefore, nobody should blame us for the things we do. On October 7, October 10, October 1,000,000 – everything we do is justified.”
www.danielgreenfield.org/2024/03/we-are-victims-and-everything-we-do-is.html?utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Daniel+Greenfield+Article%3A+We+Are+the+Victims+and+Everything+We+Do+is+Justified&utm_campaign=20240324_m180259909_Daniel+Greenfield+Article%3A+%28post_title%29&utm_term=We+Are+the+Victims+and+Everything+We+Do+is+Justified