one of the most insidious Amerikkkan ideological bugbears is the oddly common feeling that victims of tragedy (be it police brutality or a train derailment) deserve it if they can't precisely and academically articulate the exact systemic nature of the tragedy. in reality victims often won't have good takes about what happened to them, and that doesn't change a thing about the injustice they experienced at the hands of (usually) capitalists.