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{{quote| ''All sympathy given to victims is treacherous. The love is directed exclusively to a victim whom one consider oneself superior to. [...] It's a human psychological mechanism to be excited at the chance to help someone who is weaker, a victim. But this only works for as long as this hierarchy is firmly in place.''|'''Natascha Kampusch''', in the epilogue of ''3096 Days''}} |
{{quote| ''All sympathy given to victims is treacherous. The love is directed exclusively to a victim whom one consider oneself superior to. [...] It's a human psychological mechanism to be excited at the chance to help someone who is weaker, a victim. But this only works for as long as this hierarchy is firmly in place.''|'''Natascha Kampusch''', in the epilogue of ''3096 Days''}} |
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Poor Bob! [[All of the Other Reindeer|He's not exactly the same way as everyone else.]] And as we all know, [[False Dichotomy|there's only two kinds of people]]: The good normal people who are like us, and the people who are not like us and who are thus lesser than us. And thus, Bob ought to be grateful that Alice is such a wonderful person who looks down on him with mercy instead of hatred. While she would never consider him an equal, she pities him for not being like her. |
Poor Bob! [[All of the Other Reindeer|He's not exactly the same way as everyone else.]] And as we all know, [[False Dichotomy|there's only two kinds of people]]: The good normal people who are like us, and the people who are not like us and who are thus lesser than us. And thus, Bob ought to be grateful that Alice is such a wonderful person who looks down on him with mercy instead of hatred. While she would never consider him an equal, she pities him for not being like her. |
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Of course, this pity is actually not a good thing: Alice is prejudiced, and her pity is likely to actually hurt Bob: Either by [[Don't You Dare Pity Me|angering him]] or by encouraging him to [[Internalized Categorism|resent himself for being a lesser kind of person than Alice]]. |
Of course, this pity is actually not a good thing: Alice is prejudiced, and her pity is likely to actually hurt Bob: Either by [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!|angering him]] or by encouraging him to [[Internalized Categorism|resent himself for being a lesser kind of person than Alice]]. |
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Alice is certain to [[Innocent Bigot|consider herself Good]]. While this belief is misguided, [[Troubled Sympathetic Bigot|she might actually be a very sympathetic character as she struggles with her own prejudice]]. Her position might also give her a lot of grief, as her fellow bigots [[With Us or Against Us|consider her a traitor]] for not being enthusiastic about [[Torches and Pitchforks]]. As she listens to Bob and starts understanding that he actually has a point, she might also [[Wrong Genre Savvy|be very ashamed of letting herself fall for his heresies and fear that she is turning Evil by listening to him]]. |
Alice is certain to [[Innocent Bigot|consider herself Good]]. While this belief is misguided, [[Troubled Sympathetic Bigot|she might actually be a very sympathetic character as she struggles with her own prejudice]]. Her position might also give her a lot of grief, as her fellow bigots [[With Us or Against Us|consider her a traitor]] for not being enthusiastic about [[Torches and Pitchforks]]. As she listens to Bob and starts understanding that he actually has a point, she might also [[Wrong Genre Savvy|be very ashamed of letting herself fall for his heresies and fear that she is turning Evil by listening to him]]. |
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