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Also, being a victim and being privileged are generally seen as mutually exclusive, so it's a way to avoid guilt.

And with the infinite torrent of knowledge (including of the amount of suffering in the world) at our fingertips, guilt is an ever-present temptation for anyone with means.

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You see this with public figures, they do something horrible/super-unpopular and then they whine and say "I've been getting death threats" to posture as victims (maybe they are getting threats and maybe they aren't, but the effect is the same -- ie that they are transformed in the public consciousness into moral beings)

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