Kertusha, Bora: The Hypocrisy of Victim Love

This essay examines a specific and undertheorized structure of social behavior: the public elevation of victims as a mechanism for managing internal inferiority. Drawing on the RISON Theory (Reflected Inferiority in Social Attack and Narrative; Kertusha, 2026), the essay argues that what is here termed victim love the performative, public, and selective defense of those who suffer frequently functions not as genuine empathy but as a narrative instrument of identity construction. The victim becom