White Wolf's Morality mechanic blames the victim

The New Morality mechanic blames the victim

If White Wolf merely wanted to make a morality mechanic wherein those
who suffer violence become traumatized and deranged, I would try to
make it work. That would be a conceptually fair but mechanically
simplistic representation of some aspects of PTSD phenomena.

However, the very concept of the new Morality mechanic bothers me
because it blames the victim. One does not get traumatized by being
abused -- that's a neutral event in game terms. So the Storyteller can
drag the player characters through whatever she likes, provoking them
every step of the way.

If and when those player characters lash back and fight back and
generally take reasonable measures to protect themselves, the
Storyteller can hit them with Morality violations and give them
derangements.

That's something I would call "blaming the victim."

In real life, dehumanized persons often do become brutal, and then
start committing acts of violence. E.g., in the U.S., many soldiers
have been found beating their wives after returning from Iraq, to the
point where a public outcry has been made. But these soldiers were
first victimized themselves, which caused the deranged behavior. The
soldiers are the primary victims, the other victimizations happen after
the soldiers are brutalized.