“Over and over victims are blamed for their assaults. And when we imply that victims bring on their own fates - whether to make ourselves feel more efficacious or to make the world seem just - we prevent ourselves from taking the necessary precautions to protect ourselves. Why take precautions? We deny the trauma could easily have happened to us. And we also hurt the people already traumatized. Victims are often already full of self-doubt, and we make recovery harder by laying inspectors blame on them.” PeopleWorldFeelsSelfSeemsHurtDoubtFateHappenedProtectHarderVictimBlameDenyTraumaRecoveryAssaultSelf-doubtPrecautionInspectors Author:Anna C Salter
“The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected. Its evil effects must be plain enough to everyone. All it accomplishes is (a) to throw a veil of sanctity about ideas that violate every intellectual decency, and (b) to make every theologian a sort of chartered libertine. No doubt it is mainly to blame for the appalling slowness with which really sound notions make their way in the world.” WorldWayShouldIdeasEnoughAgeEvilSocialSoundReligiousOpinionDoubtEffectsIntellectualBlameNotionAccomplishCuriousNo DoubtConventionsVeilsTheologianDecencySanctitySlownessLibertine Book:Mencken Chrestomathy Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“There is no doubt that we need to manage migration better.Migrants are always getting the blame for politicians.” NeedsDoubtPoliticianBlameManageNo DoubtMigrationMigrants Author:Sadiq Khan