So many of these tumblrisms fall into the same pattern. They—or their proxy—are the victim of undeserved harm that was, or still is, inflicted upon them because of their identity. Therefore, they are deserving of attention and sympathy from their peers. When criticized, they take a moral high ground and claim that they only seek justice, and use their identity as a shield against the consequences of their actions. Likewise, it makes going on the attack socially permissible, because it’s done in self-defense.
Therefore, there is a need to assume the posture where one can claim more and greater victimhood. Hence the tendency to identify as trans-everything. It enables them to sidestep their own privileges and claim other group’s victim status as their own.
However, justice is not the objective. If an unjust situation were to be resolved, there would be no more grievance, and no more ability to play at being the victim. It is far easier to keep swapping stories of oppression within a circle of like-minded enablers to stave off not only criticism, but any perception at all that they world is not as they say it is. As long as the internet points keep flowing, there is no need for self-reflection.
Imagine a child who has a severe case of helicopter parents. The child learns that they can have their parents intervene against any slight and correct any grievance, whether real, perceived, or even outright fabricated. In online social justice, the group takes on the role of surrogate parent, offering endless praise and admiration for tweets and posts that air a grievance, no matter how improbable. And like with helicopter parents, the child’s self-worth has become inexorably linked to the approval of the group, making escape impossible.
In more extreme cases of this mentality, the person becomes convinced that their victimhood is unavoidable and omnipresent.
Here's an example that illustrates this point. This article states that not only do women lack agency in their lives, they can never have agency. Rape isn’t only inevitable, it’s irresistible. Unless you’re a straight, white, upper-class, cisgendered, able-bodied male, you have nothing to look forward to except a lifetime of being raped. Nothing you can do about it. Every slight or misfortune you suffer is just further evidence of the hand of the misogynistic Patriarchy at work, and dooms you to forever be a loser at the game of life due to your gender (or race, sexuality, etc.), and you are powerless to stop it.
When you blame your unhappiness on an external oppressor, you make it harder for you to get better. All you see is potential harm everywhere you look, and you have to constantly keep your guard up against it. It's a painful and exhausting way to live. You don't build self-worth by portraying yourself as a victim and indulging in wish-fulfillment fantasies. SJWs only reinforce these distortions, either as a way to shield yourself from bad feelings or to give yourself an inflated sense of moral superiority. Or money, in the case of certain Twitter demagogues. As long as you continue to blame everything but themselves for their misery, you'll always be unhappy. Learn to
accept yourself instead of needing validation from someone else.