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I attended a boarding school in China for a semester when I was little. Unfortunately, anti-Japanese sentiment was strong at this time and I was bullied by several classmates. It was pretty rough at first, but as it leveled off, I got used to it. Then something weird happened. 1/
On some level, I started enjoying the adversity. I felt like a hero for getting through a day. If everyone was out to get me, then getting through the day was already a huge accomplishment. I was relating my experience to how Harry Potter endured the Dursleys.
I'd stay up past bedtime, reading the Golden Compass by the light filtering in through the curtains -- and this was enough to feel like a heroic act of insurrection xD protagonists have to go through through trials and tribulations, and I felt like a protagonist in my own story!
Of course, this primed me even more to interpret even minor incidences as personal attacks, since my self-esteem was now built on rebelling against what I perceived to be holding me down.
I think this is the kind of psychology at play with the woke types. A fair number of their concerns are legitimate, but they've lost all objectivity because of how deeply entrenched in victimhood narratives they've become.
It's strange to say that victimhood can be enjoyable. But when you're not in any real danger, it can confer a sense of heroism. It seems like these days there are too many people who have bought into this mindset without analyzing what it can do to you 
I don't know how to break people out of this mindset though, and that seems like a problem that we should all be working on. Victimhood narratives can gain real power by playing on people's sense of self-righteousness. We've seen how this can play out in history.
