The "Batman wins" stuff wasn't cute in the 90s when Wizard did it to death. It's not now.
Console wars are pretty dumb, yes.
Regarding point 4, YES! THANK YOU! I LOVE YOU! People need to actually voice their own opinions. Youtube has made it worse and people lazier.
To the main event, I'm not so sure it necessarily has to do with victimhood. Sure, I see where this is coming from, but I think the bigger issue here is that being a raging sociopath is cool, and anonymity makes it easier than ever.
The worst thing you can do is show you give a damn about something. We associate callous, douche behaviour with coolness. It's not just the internet, look at the "jock" sterotype, or any of the other major "cliques" from high school. Part of how they distinguish themselves is cruelty. The internet makes us faceless, which makes it even easier, and even easier to just flat out dehumanise anyone at all.
I don't think it has anything to do with victimhood, though it might. I'll touch on tha in just a second. What I think it has to do with is nerds being no different from any other group on the planet. People want to be on top. Popular. Liked. Not the bullied, the victim, etc.
Now, I can sort of see victimhood as an issue, but I don't think it's nerd specific. We've become a victimhood culture. Look at the bullying legislation from Michigan. People took great offense at the fact that they couldn't bully people, to the point they were acting the victim. Were they nerds? No. Most of them were simply part of the "religious" subset of humanity, which is why you have legislation where bullying is wrong, unless (to paraphrase Stephen Colbert) you have a note from God.
It came largely down to "how DARE you persecute us for persecuting people?"
That's not to single out religious people as a whole, but you can see a pattern developing even from that example.
People take great offense at the suggestion of sexism or racism in the media, be they nerd or not. sure, gamers ***** when it's games. Comic book geeks ***** when it's comics. But when it's TV? Everyone gets in on the act.
And I won't go into Herman Cain's media circus, because I fear this is already twice as long as I intended. I may have somewhat demonstrated point three here, but I do feel this stuff needs to be commented upon, and any less content would have gutted what I was trying to say.