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Article: Blaming the victim, Globally.
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- UN Chronicle
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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In the mid-1970s, William Ryan wrote a nice little book called Blaming the Victim, which showed how people on welfare were regularly characterized as being lazy or ignorant and their sorry conditions were their fault. It was assumed that anyone could pull oneself up by one's "own bootstraps" if he or she only tried hard enough. It was not recognized that for many the opportunity was lust not there; their bootstraps just kept ripping off, Ryan was one of the few to see what we now call structural violence--the fact that some harms result from the nature of the social system itself.
Perhaps the appreciation of structural violence has not been lust another passing ...
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