All wrong, bud. People do not "insist" on being seen as victims. They are "groups of people" being the powers-that-be have taken the license to discriminate against them as groups of people. As those groups, they share common grievances, which you can easily research, if not observe, and they deserve the type of sympathy you appear to want to champion at the outset. Sorry. You lost me at "However."

"They fail to understand or acknowledge that it is likely that the unheard will continue to be unheard because they were unable to, as Smith says, “flatten their tone.”" Yes, if there's one thing that those in power just love it's when the aggrieved are polite petitioners. The "angry women" held up signs in the streets. The polite, conservative women served cookies. Heaven forbid that those we discriminate against forget their manners! For how many hundreds of years have they asked "nicely?"