Trying to reason with people when they're doing copes pretty much never works. You can't reason a man out of something he wasn't reasoned into in the 1st place, and copes are driven by a need for emotional security.
It’s the path of least resistance. People are basically reacting appropriately to (admittedly perverse) incentives. Victimhood is the highest moral and social position in our present society, with the progressive stack functioning as a formal codification of these values. The only way to stop this corrosive dynamic is to cease rewarding victims.
Those rewards are coming from left wing governments and media. So yeah.
So you get fewer empowered people and more people who just play the victim all day.
Sure, there will be people who go against the tide, but like going against the tide, it's effortful and they will be less well off than in a healthy society where good things are encouraged and bad things discouraged.
Communists learned that playing the victim is a powerful tool to undermine free societies, especially where women have the right to vote:
A false victim narrative creates grievances to motivate the out-group to attack the establishment
Some percentage of the majority (women) are dumb enough to buy into the false victim narrative and to signal virtue by betraying the establishment - which they are a part of - in order to selfishly feel good about themselves
Of course you can, actually reasoning is the only way out.
But it has to be reason starting from their warped perspective. Systemic racism is a gospel to them so accepting that, the reasoning way out is to say in effect what are you going to do about it? Let them win, or persevere?
Basically you have to be a total dick and rub their nose in their individual failures; why did you buy the expensive TV instead of fixing your car, if you had fixed your car you wouldn't have been fire for missing work, and so on. They have to be slapped in the face with where they'd be if they made each better decision. They'll still feel discriminated against, but it won't be the entire reason and eventually if they make better decisions and succeed they'll have less resentment.
Problem is liberals will never do this as (like everybody else) they know a sizeable number of blacks genetically can't make good decisions (MAO-A) and they won't blame people for what's out of their control. So liberals never do this reality-slap and hold them accountable for anything.
Trying to reason with people when they're doing copes pretty much never works. You can't reason a man out of something he wasn't reasoned into in the 1st place, and copes are driven by a need for emotional security.
And it boggles my mind how being oppressed or a victim is so trendy with young people today
It’s the path of least resistance. People are basically reacting appropriately to (admittedly perverse) incentives. Victimhood is the highest moral and social position in our present society, with the progressive stack functioning as a formal codification of these values. The only way to stop this corrosive dynamic is to cease rewarding victims.
Those rewards are coming from left wing governments and media. So yeah.
Goes back to what Milton Friedman said about getting more of what you reward
You get more of what you encourage.
So you get fewer empowered people and more people who just play the victim all day.
Sure, there will be people who go against the tide, but like going against the tide, it's effortful and they will be less well off than in a healthy society where good things are encouraged and bad things discouraged.
Communists learned that playing the victim is a powerful tool to undermine free societies, especially where women have the right to vote:
A false victim narrative creates grievances to motivate the out-group to attack the establishment
Some percentage of the majority (women) are dumb enough to buy into the false victim narrative and to signal virtue by betraying the establishment - which they are a part of - in order to selfishly feel good about themselves
Sad but true
Of course you can, actually reasoning is the only way out.
But it has to be reason starting from their warped perspective. Systemic racism is a gospel to them so accepting that, the reasoning way out is to say in effect what are you going to do about it? Let them win, or persevere?
Basically you have to be a total dick and rub their nose in their individual failures; why did you buy the expensive TV instead of fixing your car, if you had fixed your car you wouldn't have been fire for missing work, and so on. They have to be slapped in the face with where they'd be if they made each better decision. They'll still feel discriminated against, but it won't be the entire reason and eventually if they make better decisions and succeed they'll have less resentment.
Problem is liberals will never do this as (like everybody else) they know a sizeable number of blacks genetically can't make good decisions (MAO-A) and they won't blame people for what's out of their control. So liberals never do this reality-slap and hold them accountable for anything.