Half thought out idea about the "Blame the victim" mentality

[Bucky]

I put the following in a post in another thread. I'm too busy to think this through just now, but I'd appreciate any other thoughts, expansions, or critiques yall in the history hobby have about it.

"Blame the victim" is always wrong. Society used to actively pursue that "blame the victim" mentality because, sadly, the "winners" in society are so often the perpetrators of injustice--bank fraudsters in the 2000s, Wall Street junk bonders in the 1900s robber barons in the 1800s, land swindlers in the 1700s, colonial conquistadors in the 1600s. The opinion leaders of the world formulated that "blame the victim" notion because they needed to rationalize their inhumane treatment of fellow human beings.