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Re:Self-victimhood is a personality type, researchers find by amanaplanacanal on Friday December 11, 2020 @04:39PM (#25391399)
This is about a personality type, not a culture. Using it as a tool to bludgeon folks who have actually been victimized would be wrong.
Re:Self-victimhood is a personality type, researchers find by lopmotr on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:06PM (#25391931)
It's not clear that feeling like a victim is ever a good approach to life and maybe a bit of bludgeoning would help in the long run. No matter how bad things are because of someone harming you, it can be just as bad because of nobody's fault. For example, born with a disability vs acquired on from an assault or unemployed because of discrimination or unemployed because of lack of ability. The outcome is the same and perhaps we should be encouraging all people to make the best of their lives and not suffer from feelings of vengeance and blame.
Re:Self-victimhood is a personality type, researchers find by wahern on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:04PM (#25391881)
The actual paper does conflate the personality type with the culture (i.e. intergroup conflict), at least in the first section, "The psychological dimensions of TIV: an integrative literature". See https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.11013... I think that's what the reporting is picking up on.

It actually made me curious what evidence there is, if any, in the domain of psychology showing a meaningful connection between individual personalities and cultural analogs, beyond a cultural phenomenon that is superficially similar simply making for a more hospital environment for the personality type, or vice-versa. In other words, by studying one (personality type or cultural phenomenon) can we draw substantive conclusions about the other in terms of genesis or remediation? We (as humans) love making such equivocations, but absent strong evidence they're mostly just exercises in, e.g., the composition fallacy.