There is a theory being floated out there that white men are under attack–under siege really. The theory goes like this: We have, as a species, swung away from appreciating the contributions of white men to society and have swung towards embracing so-called diversity to such a extent that everything is acceptable. Furthermore, we have begun to openly blame white men for all that ails the world. Of course, none of this is new and some of this is true.
Here is where I stand on such things: It has nothing to do with color. It has everything to do with power. We have experienced a slight but measurable shift in the balance of power. Traditionally, the power was held by old money oligarchs who were, traditionally, white and male. They controlled the resources and the jobs, thus giving them control of the ‘democratic’ process. Things went completely off the rail once Obama was hired. Don’t get me wrong, he wasn’t terribly different from past presidents in terms of policy, but optics are extremely important in our country. We must see things as being ‘as they should be’ As a result we hit a hard reset and stumbled into Trump.
White men are no more under attack than they have been. Only now the white male movement is attaching itself to everything and anything that represents so-called traditional beliefs and gathering it all under one header–one of the oppressed. It ought not be done as it muddies the truth of what is happening.