Why People Feel Like Victims
&gt; So victimhood is a learned behavior after a certain age.<p>As a brown guy with kids in the school system, that&#x27;s why recent trends in education alarm me. I don&#x27;t want my kids to be taught that there&#x27;s this amorphous but pervasive &quot;systemic racism&quot; and &quot;white supremacy&quot; out to get people who look like them, but which they can&#x27;t do anything about. It&#x27;s dangerous experimentation with kids&#x27; psychology.<p>Growing up as one of the few brown kids in what was (back then) solidly Republican Virginia, I learned we should treat everyone like we&#x27;d want to be treated ourselves. I don&#x27;t think it would have helped my personal or professional success--not to mention my mental health--to be socialized to look out for these dark and foreboding forces around every corner. That&#x27;s irrespective of whether it&#x27;s true or not. If our white neighbors hated having Bangladeshis move in next door, they never let on, and frankly I think I&#x27;m better off not having dwelt on what was in their deepest thoughts.