When my sister experienced sudden cardiac death in her twenties, 8 months pregnant, for no apparent reason at all, I desperately wanted someone or something to blame, because anger was easier to confront than the earth-shattering grief. Anger feels productive. It feels like something may come of it, and that glimmer of hope that if you just channel the anger in the right way, you might be able to affect the bad thing that you're actually powerless against is extremely appealing.
I didn't have the option of anger, but I wished for it desperately at times. Ultimately, I'm sure I grew more confronting the reality that sometimes really awful stuff happens for no reason at all, and there's nothing I can do about it, but I wouldn't wish the learning of that lesson that way on anybody.
Yes, we want to have control over destiny, and depending on the negative event may reserve anger at creation or things and beings within it.
However, what the GP and GGP are referring to are intellectually avoidable. It’s mainly there because of social indoctrination and its effect on reason and judgement. Especially the young who are impressionable and believe these things uncritically. It’s sad to say, but they’re being taken advantage of by these charlatans.
It’s really not serving them. Long term it’s untenable, medium turn, people, thinkers, influencers, interested parties make some money on this.
I don't think the root of the problem is intellectual. I think the root of the problem is the insecurity and fear and grief that causes the desire to blame something--anything--even when that thing has to be imagined.
I do think motivated people are taking advantage of that instinct and using it to drive people apart, encouraging them to blame -isms, and the problem can be addressed at that level too, but if we could somehow clear up the fear and sadness that drive people to look to anger as the easier emotion, those opportunists would be wanting the requisite opportunity.