> There’s also little a priori reason to believe that might be true.

What? You don't believe that constantly telling someone they are a victim during their entire childhood can make them feel like a victim? There are really no a priori reasons to believe that such a thing could be true?

You could argue that there are little evidence for it, but you can't argue there are no a priori reasons for it being true. If I take a white kid and tell that white kid that he is a victim of black oppression, do you think that the kid will be more or less likely to feel like a victim of black oppression?

I think there's a lot of a priori reason to believe that might be true. The phenomenon of vicarious traumatization points to a mechanism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicarious_traumatization#:~:te....