Victim blaming displaces responsibility onto the target of attack.

Evidence

When criticized for using the president’s children in the ad, David Keene blamed Obama for bringing the problem on himself through public exposure of his daughters and including other children at official events, which Keene claimed were used to advance political agendas (Dwyer, 2013). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1310

Categorization

• XREF: This is the displacement-of-responsibility and blame-the-victim mechanism — pairs directly with Bandura’s core disengagement tactics and parallels vault claims on authoritarian rationalization.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1310