🧩 BND Motif Index · M929
Personal responsibility
People are said to answer for their own choices, and the other side is charged with excusing whole groups, women, parents, the poor, from theirs.
- 3claims filed under it
- 3right shows it came up on
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (0 left-leaning, 0 center, 3 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- right-leaning
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “the Democrat Party doesn't believe in individual responsibility” “The left doesn't believe that parents are responsible for children. They never have.” “There's just a lack of personal responsibility that will be for women that the left has basically adopted as their mantle.” “they're saying women cannot be held accountable. Treating women like babies... treating women like children who cannot be held accountable for personal decisions is not good for women or for men” “Women can't be held responsible for the choices they make.”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 0
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the left so far.
Told on the right 3
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
- 2026-10-12 “The Democratic party has adopted a stance that women cannot be held responsible for their own choices.” 1
- 2026-10-12 “The Democratic Party does not believe in individual responsibility.” 2
- 2026-10-07 “Women are being treated like children who cannot be held accountable for their decisions.” 2
M929 · first seen 2026-10-13 · last 2026-10-12 · what this is · how the index works