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Comment by Tangurena2

1 hour ago

There used to be an epidemic of cars striking and killing pedestrians. The advertising industry (hired by the auto industry) came up with the new imaginary crime called "jaywalking". This diverted attention from the killers and onto the victims. Just one more version of the victim blaming that derives from the Just World Hypothesis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_fallacy