>>9526884Because to be a victim, is the highest attainable social status goal.
When you're a victim in western society, then you're basically considered virtuous and untouchable.
Everybody has to listen to you and take the drivel you spout, seriously. Everybody pretends to feel bad for you, which amounts to loads of attention.
And in the minds of a lot of broken people, pity is the same as love.
People don't mockingly call it the oppression Olympics for nothing.