Is it me, or has anyon else noticed ...

[Stonepounder]

59. It is always 'blame the victim' when authority tramples on the weak.

If a woman gets raped it is because 'she was asking for it', or 'she had too much to drink'. If someone who has worked all his/her life and suddenly finds themselves out of a job and can't find a new one, they 'are just lazy and would rather get rich off unemployment'. If a cop shoots an unarmed black man then 'the kid grabbed for the officer's gun'.

Blacks are the current convenient 'minority group' that is easy to hate. Just like the Jews, the Irish, the Chinese, and the Indians before them. The white man looks down his nose and blames everyone but himself for all the ills of society. And the 1% are laughing their asses off because when you push someone too far and they break, then the oligarchs just spin it to say, 'see, they are just a bunch of violent bums, so, a priori, the original inciting incident was justified'.

And way too many folk, even on DU, don't realize how they are being played like a fiddle.