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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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CMV: Saying things along the line of “if everyone around you is an asshole then you’re the asshole” is dumb and victim blaming. (to the people who aren’t actually assholes)

1. Saying one wrong thing can bring on a wave of hate. If I said something about X being better than Y if enough people feel strongly about it.

2. A girl was bullied to the point of suicide because she stopped drawing fan art of a certain YouTuber. She wasn’t being an asshole she just stopped doing something.

3. If a child is being bullied by their peers saying something like that is telling them it’s their fault they’re being bullied and they need to fix themselves. 

4. Remember when {Edited due to me making a mistake, I see that now} *almost* everyone was an asshole to people based on race? Yeah, I doubt that people brought the racism on to them.
 
Edit; So is this phrase meant to be taken literally or not literally? Or can it somehow be both?
gpt
The phrase isn't meant to be an absolute, just a general call for self-examination. People on the whole are biased toward self-justification and tend to see themselves as the hero of their own story. Of course there are genuine victims, but there are also people who conflate any consequences of their own toxic behavior with victimization. The saying isn't meant to be any kind of hard and fast rule. It's only meant to disrupt the self-justification narrative long enough to allow for candid self-examination.