It's another abstraction of victim culture. If someone says "I don't feel safe", a non-trivial number of people will interpret that to mean the person isn't safe, AKA they're being victimized. That's why professional victims always use that language. "I felt unwelcome" is translated as "I was being ostracized". "I felt that my race made me a target" is translated as "I was being hunted by the racist white man". They don't have to say these things, they let the stupidity of the audience do it for them. Then when they're exposed a liars, technically they can say they never actually lied. They were just feelings, after all.
It's another abstraction of victim culture. If someone says "I don't feel safe", a non-trivial number of people will interpret that to mean the person isn't safe, AKA they're being victimized. That's why professional victims always use that language. "I felt unwelcome" is translated as "I was being ostracized". "I felt that my race made me a target" is translated as "I was being hunted by the racist white man". They don't have to say these things, they let the stupidity of the audience do it for them. Then when they're exposed a liars, technically they can say they never actually lied. They were just feelings, after all.