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  "path": "/threads/the-political-complexities-of-victim-mentality-and-the-danger-it-poses.2633979/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-06T19:09:03.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Points to consider:\n\n\nVictim mentality is one potential byproduct of having been victimized.\n\nThere are many forms of victimization, not all of them obvious or generally realized. The psychological effects of victimization are broad and can lead to further victimization in that victim mentality can be recognized and targeted by victimizers.\n\nA major creator of victims is authoritarianism, political, religious, societal, or family based, etc.\n\nIt is victims that, owing to Stockholm syndrome, regularly become the victimizers.\n\nThis is a psychological truth that easily goes unrecognized just like the effects of victimization are not always recognized.\n\nThis law is that we become what we fear.\n\nSome political examples: The conditions of oppression by the British created the Declaration of Independence, to the US presence on the world stage as a dictatorial power. The victims of the holocaust turning Gaza into a concentration camp. Trumps father creating his very sick son.\n\nIt is...\n\nRead more",
  "title": "The political complexities of victim mentality and the danger it poses."
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