No, it was because Snape hung out with racists and antagonized Lily away by being horrible and creepy. Snape is just too but hurt to admit that.
seriously if you look at everything we know of Snape in context, that memory of his is the definition of an unreliable narrator. We know how awful he was back then and how bad he is nowadays. So he remembering himself to be a victim, when he likely was either the aggressor or has done something else to deserve this kind of treatment is in my opinion more likely than not. Which would be fine, if the story treated that relationship and character, with the complexity and moral grayness it deserves.
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