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by n_plus_1 1616 days ago
Victim-blaming is about blaming the victim. It has no other qualifiers attached. Having it mean anything else runs counter to the composition of this composite term.
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Lots of popular phrases have a meaning that is different from strictly combining the literal definition of their constituent parts. In fact I think this the case for most popular phrases. If not, they wouldn't be phrases, just words.
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