“Blaming the victim” is a disgusting attempt to implicate the victim of a crime as being partially responsible for the violence bestowed upon him by some thug.

In A Hurricane of Fraud?, the LA Times editorializes that “obsessing about the spending habits of refugees comes perilously close to blaming the victim.” Do they even understand what the expression means? The “victims” of Katrina were victims of a hurricane, not a mugger or rapist. Claiming that these people in effect stole money from the taxpayers has nothing to do with the “blaming the victim” tactic, since the taxpayers are distinct from the hurricane.

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