 If the leaders of a country, and the citizens who support them, collectively feel like victims, those leaders may be more likely to advocate violent conflict resolution or suppression of freedom of speech.Political psychologists Bar-Tal and Chernyak-Hai write that collective victim mentality develops from a progression of self-realization, social recognition, and eventual attempts to maintain victimhood status.For example, the Black Lives Matter movement which seeks to convince all black people that they are victims of police shootings at a higher rate than white people, despite contradictory evidence, can be viewed as a manifestation of collective victim mentality.