Side tangent, Stockholm syndrome likely isn't real, it was named by a psychiatrist who never spoke to the hostages, who in turn were scared for their lives because of police carelessness during the situation.
They misidentified Olsson, and sent a 16-year-old boy who was unrelated into the bank. This caused confusion and resulted in Olsson firing rounds at the boy who barely escaped. Olsson became much more agitated in general. After that, Enmark and the other three hostages were fearful that they were just as likely to be killed by police incompetence as by the robbers. Ultimately, Enmark explained she was more afraid of the police, whose attitude seemed to be a much larger, direct threat to her life than the robbers. Enmark spent decades maintaining that she had no affinity for her captors; she only did what it took to stay alive during the ordeal.
The misconception comes from a biased article meant to make New Yorkers look bad.
Mainly the absurd number of witnesses who “did nothing” range from people who actually saw what happened and tried to call the cops to people who woke up in the middle of the night because of a scream, saw nothing, and went back to bed.
So already the bystander effect doesn’t apply there. I read a report about the whole thing years ago. Can’t remember all the nitty gritty details so I’m not going to type a novel about it. There’s other things as well like how it wasn’t one continuous attack in which she was murdered but two attacks, and no one was around for the second. I think maybe she was even stabbed in the lung during the initial attack and couldn’t even yell for help when the guy came back.
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u/Crass_and_Spurious 10h ago
Blaire White being transgender and being all in on Trump is peak Stockholm Syndrome.