The Victim Blaming Accusation Lobby

July 10, 2019 Off By Real Estate Club of America

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The Victim Blaming Accusation Lobby has obtained a worthwhile cause and morphed it into an extremist movement designed to silence and discredit those that disagree with their point of view.

The rewarding cause is victims of sexual assault should not be blamed by society for what transpired. They shouldn’t subject themselves to harmful self-blame. The blame should rest on the perpetrators of sexual assault. Unfortunately, this righteous cause is now dominated by the extremists I dub as the Victim Blaming Accusation Lobby (ABAL). The ABAL accuses anyone who takes into consideration Factors linked to the victim of sexual assault as“blaming the victim”. A popular strategy goes as follows:

If a person states that”a certain Victim Factor increases the probability of sexual assault”, the ABAL swings into action using the following strategy. The phrase Factor increases the odds is changed to Factor causes. Since, the reference relates to the Victim’s behavior or traits. The Accused person’s original sentence is translated to”Victim Factor triggers sexual assault”.

The changed sentence creates the Victim Blaming Accusation. The Factor is declared to be invalid because not having the Factor doesn’t prevent sexual assault. For example, because being sober does not prevent sexual assault, the probability of sexual assault doesn’t increase.

The argument is flawed in the same way as stating that “because not smoking does not prevent lung cancer, then smoking does not increase the odds of lung cancer.”  The final logical proof is that because the perpetrator is to blame, nothing that the victim did could have done caused the attack. The Factor is declared invalid.

This methodology enables all Factors to be denied without any investigation into the actual validity of this Factor.

The ABAL labels the Accused Person as a Victim-Blamer and asks the inevitable question of “Why is the Accused blaming the Victims Rather than blaming the Perpetrators?”

Here are more faulty logical arguments used from the ABAL to discredit others with a different viewpoint.

1. No methods work to prevent rape, since no method works every time to prevent rape.

2. Some victims could do nothing to avoid being raped all sufferers could do nothing to prevent being raped.

3. Examining the behaviour of the victim means NOT examining the behavior of the perpetrator.

4. Trying to modify the behavior of possible victims means NOT trying to change perpetrators or the behaviour. Focusing on certain behaviours of some victims, means focusing on all victims’ pre-assault behavior.

6. Saying the victim has some responsibility.

7. Women shouldn’t have to either since men don’t participate in rape risk reduction practices.

The problem with this VBAL is that its mass accusations of Victim-Blaming leads to alienating people and organizations that have a genuine interest in reducing the rate of sexual assault. It stifles discussion and all dialog that doesn’t adhere to the VBAL Point of View.

The VBAL obsession with the concept of attribute has made blame the central issue as opposed to creating reducing the rate of sexual attack the central issue.

NOTE: This entire discussion is about Societal Violence Dynamics – The 6th Dimension of Self-Defense.

 

 

CategorySelf-Defense