Industries deflect blame for harm onto victims’ personal deficiencies

Evidence

Industry personnel attributed harmful effects, which could not be dismissed, to personal deficiencies of the victims or to other causative factors operating in the environment. Bad genes, personal vulnerabilities, and unhealthful lifestyles were invoked as the causes of health problems. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1824

Categorization

• XREF: Victim-blaming deflection parallels vault claims about how supporters of exclusionary policy blame minorities’ own traits or culture for their disadvantaged position.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1824