Study shows personality construct that explains Antifa and BLM

Researchers identified a new personality construct that describes the tendency to see oneself as a victim. Published in Personality and Individual Differences, authors Rahav Gabay and team describe the social world as being inundated with interpersonal transgressions that are unwarranted and usually unpleasant. An example they give is being interrupted when speaking.

Some of us are less bothered than others, but some tend to ruminate over them and see themselves as a victim. The study depicts this feeling of being a victim as a novel personality construct that helps them make sense of the world as they see it. 

The researchers call it the Tendency for Interpersonal Victimhood (TIV) defined as “an ongoing feeling that the self is a victim, which is generalized across many kinds of relationships.”

Consider Antifa and Black Lives Matter.

Antifa consists of people who have convinced themselves that everyone who disagrees with them are fascists and they are the "anti-fascists" who, because they are being oppressed, have the right to inflict violence on the enemy of righteousness. They even have the right to interrupt people they disagree with when those people are speaking.

They see themselves as victims of "the man" and all the world is seen in black and white . . . almost literally.

Wealth is evil. Equality of outcome is good. 

White people, who are not willing to repent for being white, are evil racists and white supremacists. People of color are inherently good and therefore cannot be racists.

Antifa members see themselves as victims of the intangible "system." 

Black Lives Matter (BLM) pretends to believe what their name implies, but it's a ruse that uses semantic overload to trap you. If you say that you don't believe in their Marxist ideology, they say you don't care about Black people. If you're Black and you say something that goes against them, they will just as easily attack you than they would a White person.

If you say that all lives matter, you are considered a racist because you refuse to parrot their slogan.

Some, not all, BLM members see themselves as victims. Those who don't are the Marxist leaders of BLM who hide behind the group's alleged victimhood to forward their communist agenda.

Gabay, et al, established in its three studies that the TIV as a stable, consistent trait that involves: moral elitism, a lack of empathy, the need for recognition, and rumination.

When considering the messages from BLM and the actions of Antifa, the connections are obvious.

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