I’ve experienced the really simple, petty shit too. When I worked at Lowe’s, a coworker made a joke and I laughed, noticed a customer in front of me and said “good evening”. Then I noticed she had some badass shoes and I told her I liked them. Mind you, I was still giggly from the joke, all this happened in like a minute or two. She immediately called a manager and claimed that I was making fun of her and demanded I be fired. I explained to my manager what happened and exactly what I said, and she threw a fit saying I was just trying to save my skin and that I shouldn’t be laughing while at work anyway. So this gringa felt so hurt by the little brown woman enjoying her night at work and dishing out compliments that she had to go play the victim and demand I be fired. All because, what, I wasn’t miserable? I dared to look her way? Like yeah, they often weaponize victimhood in a way that ends up violent, but they also do it just to be petty. They ruin people’s lives sometimes just because they had a bad day. And all of that needs to be addressed. We see it every day.