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This is ideological battle boilerplate of the sort that contradicts the mandate of this site and which users were therefore right to flag:

This is the fundamental victim mindset of the social media woke: any setback is chalked up to identity based oppression. Reality check: everybody has setbacks, most of them unfair, or at least easily perceived as unfair, and definitely frustrating. Most have the decency to deal with it,

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Complaining about life adversities on social media in a hyperbolic race / gender wrapping, 'constantly dehumanized', is a recent widespread phenomenon. The heroine of this story happens to embody this novel behavior, which used to be a whole lot more private and a whole lot less race / gender driven. Not sure where 'ideology' enters the picture, it's a reasonably truthful observation from someone that is old enough to remember life before social media.

Ideology enters the picture when people repeat predictable clusters of angry and rigid reactions about complex topics. Things we've heard many times already are off topic here, especially when they're tied to classic flamewar themes. This follows from the definition of curiosity, which is the mandate of this site.

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