by Chris Black
The reason Americans can’t be bothered to protest big pharmaceutical companies raking in billions of dollars off poisoning people with opiates is the same reason they shrug their shoulders when blacks kill a 17 year old white kid or the FBI arrests a hapless patsy on trumped up charges.
Americans blame the victim and implicitly believe in a just-world fallacy where bad things only happen to people who somehow deserve it because of their own personal failings.
I think the victim-blaming thing could just be a form of terror management.
No one wants to believe they live in a world where they could be capriciously killed or jailed at any moment through no fault of their own.
You have to believe it’s possible to avoid disaster by making the right choices as a coping mechanism.