A majority, advantaged group reports feeling more victimised than the minority it once victimised.

Evidence

These results show that the two groups differed significantly on all variables, except age and income. Two mean differences that especially may be drawn attention to relate to collective victimhood and negative emotions that were associated with collective victimhood. Hindus felt more victimised, and they also expressed more negative emotions relative to Muslims. They also preferred revenge more and reconciliation less in comparison to Muslims. — R. C. Tripathi, R. Kumar, and V. N. Tripathi, When the Advantaged Feel Victimised, 52

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the reader’s interest in weak-identity/accountability-evasion and advantaged-group victimhood claims beyond US whiteness; — connects to: Negative emotions bind narratives of victimhood and consolidate ingroup identity. — R. C. Tripathi, R. Kumar, and V. N. Tripathi, When the Advantaged Feel Victimised:…, 127; Objectively privileged groups can feel victimized, justifying resistance to redress. — Nurit Shnabel and Johannes Ullrich, Identity Needs in Intergroup Relations:…, 125
• DEEPTHINKING: Empirical anchor for the paradoxical finding that dominance can be narrated as persecution

Related

• An advantaged Hindu majority reports stronger collective victimhood than the Muslim minority (similarity 0.92)
• Victimisation among advantaged groups likely works differently than among minorities (similarity 0.91)
• Dominant majority and the group it harmed show asymmetric victimhood dynamics. (similarity 0.90)
• Hindu victimhood arises from ingroup identity, not from relative disadvantage. (similarity 0.89)
• Negative emotions bind narratives of victimhood and consolidate ingroup identity. (similarity 0.89)
• Macro-historical narratives can produce collective victimhood absent any present-day relative deprivation. (similarity 0.86)
• Hindu victimhood claims run on historical memories, not discrete events. (similarity 0.86)
• Majority and minority revenge reactions are driven by different psychological factors (similarity 0.86)
• Collective victimhood feelings suppress reconciliatory actions across both groups (similarity 0.86)
• Collective victimhood drives revenge more than reconciliation in both groups (similarity 0.86)
• Collective victimhood drives Hindu revenge more than raw negative emotions do (similarity 0.86)
• Majority groups that regain status after long subordination remain unstudied (similarity 0.84)
• Majority groups often narrate their history as victimised despite holding power (similarity 0.84)
• R. C. Tripathi, R. Kumar, and V. N. Tripathi — When the Advantaged Feel Victimised The Case of Hindus in India (similarity 0.84)
• Objectively privileged groups can feel victimized, justifying resistance to redress. (similarity 0.84)