Telling someone they are a victim and there is nothing they can possibly do to better their situation is not a helpful or productive action. You end up with entire generations who believe there is no point trying because its all pointless since they are a victim to something that happened generations ago.
> Telling someone they are a victim and there is nothing they can possibly do to better their situation is not a helpful or productive action.
Who is telling people that they are victims? Who thinks that being a victim means that it's 100% outside of that person's control?
These are the straw-men that so many dumb comments here are based on. There are real victims in the world and most of the time they're just trying to tell their stories, only to get constant derision from idiots in cesspools like Hacker News.
just to name two examples: many feminists are telling women that they are oppressed (=victimized) by "the patriarchy" and a lot of people are claiming that black people are still systemically oppressed (=victimized) in the USA.
I'm not claiming that those examples are true or false, I want to show that this is not a straw man.
> There are real victims in the world
indeed there are but this article (and the comments) are not about them.
