Powerless peoples rationalize victimhood as providential accident

Evidence

64 Deification of accidents serves of course as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny. See for instance Steinberg, op. cit.: “For it is Accident that has become decisive for the structure of Jewish history. And Accident…, in the language of religion is called Providence” (p. 34). — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2443

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the toolkit’s genealogical and race-thinking concepts — how collectives narrate their own subordination as fate. — connects to: People seek refuge in the very power that injures them — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2486