I think there's power -- and mental health benefits -- to reaching across the identity divide and realizing our essential commonality as human beings. As a gay man, it's tempting to think any problems I might have stem from my sexuality (or societal homophobia) but I don't think that's true. Addiction, lonliness, broken relationships, these problems are endemic to modern life among both gays and straights.
I never think of my straight brothers and sisters as enjoying "heterosexual privilege." Yes, it's true that on balance it's more challenging to be gay than straight. But each of us come to the present moment with complex histories involving myriad advantages and disadvantages. I refuse to put my pain on a scale and weigh it up against anothers. As if I could possibly put all of our "intersectional identities" into a computer program that would spit out a correct answer! It can't be done and it would be disrespectful to try.
Great article, but I think we're at about peak woke right now. Obviously the Claudine Gay scandal blew a hole in the side of the DEI industry, but also James O'Keefe's recent video showing IBM (?) was blatantly using discrimination in hiring practices. The courts are slow, but they work. I think it helps that people have a pretty basic understanding of fairness, and elevating OR diminishing a person based on race is simply not fair.
I truly hope you're right. The links I followed describe activities from 2-5 years ago. Do we have any evidence that some of these programs are being rescinded? I can guess that any clawbacks towards color-blind society would garner less press than the DEI moves.
Tech companies like Google and Meta made cuts to DEI programs in 2023 after big promises in prior years
By mid-2023, DEI-related job postings had declined 44% from the same time a year prior, according to data provided by job site Indeed. In November 2023, the last full month for which data was available, it dropped 23% year over year.
Thanks for the update. That's promising. But even if actual DEI-related postings are down, many companies can retain identity-based targets for employment and senior management.
Don't forget Asians and Jews too. These missing identities are inconvenient slips in their minority victim purity vows that shoots a hole in their claim of "caring" motives, and even threatens the argument that what they have is a religion. Because it would be like Christians saying that Jesus is good, except if Jesus would not vote for Joe Biden. A cult is a better definition... but I would call it a political cult.
The power behind the woke identity game seems to be coming from two sources. One is the radical feminists, and low-T male, and cohort of the children born of upper class coastal liberal parents. Hold that thought aside for a bit.
The other is the WEF globalists that exploit the former.
Both have a shared goal to tear down American society for their own purpose. The WEF globalists know that Brexit and Trump are indications of the rapid, but inevitable, collapse of the post Bretton Woods Global Order. Their interest is to keep democratic power in the hands of the existing corporatist and ruling class establishment in a desperate effort to prolong the Global Order. So they support anything that hobbles US economic and social stability. They want to keep looting from the US as a giant ATM and Wall Street money-making sandbox. They would wring it dry until it is just an empty shell. The US ending its 75 years of funding the security of all the shipping lanes, its pulling back from foreign conflict military spending, its stopping the export of American working class economic opportunity to other countries... all of this is tragic to those foreign interests and the top-end investor class that have gone all in on the globalism game... including the corrupt administrators that get paid from the investor class.
Soros and Schwab saw this more than a decade ago. There is a long list of countries that are going to struggle feeding their people without the safety of massive container and tanker ships going here and there with affordable insurance because the US navy was patrolling all seven seas. Today Iran is having a great time funding its Hezbollah terrorists to attack those ships. The Global Order party is coming to an end.
Now back to the radicals. They share the goal of system collapse. They do so because they cannot measure up to the standards required to gain a seat at the status table. Think about these kids... their therapy-consuming Baby Boomer parents told them that they are special... sent them to be over-educated and many saddled with big student loan debt. They launched late into the working world with oversized expectations (entitlements) only to find that those cis white males, Asians and Jews would outperform them in competition for economic and social status. So they collect together and form a mob of grievance with a cult scripture that would elevate them up that status ladder... not because of any demonstrated capability... but because they are a non-binary, trans, black, birthing person.
What ALL of this woke nonsense is about... destroying the American meritocracy of production to be replaced by the same collectivist authoritarian alternative that all snibblers, whiners and malcontents dream about as benefiting them... and that corrupt tyrants also dream about as a way to gain billions of wealth from the system without having to start and grow a business that produces, for example, self-driving EVs and self-landing rockets.
Woke is a cult for the lazy and underqualified. It is also racist. But more than anything, it is a recipe for national destruction... yes, it is ruining the country.
the one thing that truly undermines White supremacy arguments is that the highest earning class in the US is not white, it is Asian. How's that for supremacy. whites are barely in the top 5. go figure
i hesitate to address your comment per the Jewish part to the equation but since this is a small community, I will go there. Ackman is a case in point. The scales have dropped from his eyes, maybe they were shot off, but he is doing the lords work now. But there is a lot of explaining to do. The Jewish lobby, academics, and politicians supported this crap right up until October 7. They were cool with it until they found out they were white oppressors. They poured a lot of money into this and while the spigots have been turned down (not off) I suspect that this is a negotiation. That Ackman is going for the Harvard board too, but i worry this will all blow over, they will get rid of the oppressor/white label* and the funding will resume with the same results.
The Jewish community wishes to not make waves... goes with the popular flow as to not waste any time debating childish memes and thus can win at business. I think this tribal tendency is one of the reasons that conflict returns. Turning the other cheek in the face of real evil, or worse... playing a supportive role in a act to keep the monsters away, failing to recognize the danger building, makes for having to deal with a crisis in conflict later.
yea kinda like being for democracy until you realize its 2 wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner.
Im not saying tey should trust those on the right as it was conceptualized in the 50's, but that is the right from long ago we are talking about. now everybody but the hard left is ultra maga. there is plenty of room for reasonable people with center right/left views to chart a new course. will l they be in or go back to the radicals?
Why yes... the children of the children of the Baby Boomers. The cycle of dysfunction continues. However, I do see that the Gen-X generation has a legit gripe given what the establishment managerial and ruling class did to them with useless wars and the great financial collapse of 2008. Gen-Z is just a psycho-ops mess from the radical feminists controlling the education system, social media... and all fueled by a corrupt corporate media committed to constantly enraging them to burn the place down... even though they have no life skills to survive if the place burns down.
When Marxism was at last proved to be not just a failure, but a destructive blood-soaked disaster, it was given safe harbor to recuperate and reinvent itself in American academia, where a phoenix named Social Justice rose from its ashes. That this dagger aimed straight at the heart of Western Civ and its Enlightenment project, stoked by a bottomless raging hatred of America, was almost entirely subsidized by American taxpayers is just a rich historical irony and proof that Marx was right about at least one thing—capitalists will sell you the rope you use to hang them.
But now Social Justice is the official state religion of the entire Anglosphere and most of the Western world and is locked in as the sacred belief system of just about everyone under 30 and college educated and anyone aspiring to any professional or managerial career—thus completing possibly the largest mass conversion of a nation or Empire since Emperor Constantine.
The only reason "Woke" seems to be winding down is because the war has been won, the capitals conquered and the temples operating under new ownership (1776 has been scrubbed out by 1619), so there are only occasional mopping-up operations needed here and there when a peasant uprising breaks out.
This will only be changed by war (whether foreign or civil) or some economic and/or social collapse none of us would want to live through—everything else is just background noise.
One thing is for certain if this social justice ponzi scheme continues unabated:
The white "saviors" will eventually get justice when the sacred cows impartially oppress them. It is only at this point the "new" oppressors will have equality.
How that looks is 50/50 to me. It's either soaked in blood. Or soaked full that it no longer holds "water".
No matter what it will soaked in the tears of the "saviors".
Mind blowing. You captured this takeover so well, how it happened slowly and then all at once with the tumults of 2020. I think we underestimate the unprecedented mass brainwashing impact from the combination of pandemic hysteria/fear, lockdown boredom, cell phones and Floyd's graphic death replayed endlessly, beating the drum of racial injustice like some ritual penance. It was such perfect storm for the vulnerable brains of young adults, the narrative and the drama so sexy. Now they've taken over every institution around here in the Northeast, including the police which I still don't get, even though it's more purple than blue in our area. DEI ideology doesn't feel past peak to me because it's locked in to state health, education, and government guidance, as you point out. It's going to take major pushback, but people are scared, complacent and also sheep. The woke vanguard seem to have the youth mesmerized for now and are pressing their advantage with mobs in the streets chanting By Any Means Necessary and attacking Christmas trees. Optimism would be premature, by a long shot.
In the late 1990s I fired a transsexual worker because she was an asshole, impossible to work with. I got an immediate call from HR telling me to rescind the firing because I was exposing the company to liability in any claim of discrimination. My response was "I would fire any non-transsexual employee for the same behavior; you are telling me to discriminate in favor of the transsexual employee to avoid any charge of discrimination. Say that aloud five times then call me back.
A new system of discrimination & reward based on an ever changing set of standards that are not agreed upon by its membership which is not clearly defined & is not in any majority nor do all if even a plurality of its supposed membership agree with its aims & restrictions seems destined to at least break up. Probably acrimoniously. This certainty is nearly guaranteed by the leadership of its organization being composed mostly of their historical oppressors. I would predict the initial fissure to be between Black Americans & Latinx members like the gang wars that ravage many large Liberal run cities. Sadly Rodney King’s appeal that we all just get along will be long lost in what ensues.
Reality is providing us with a prime example of where the oppressed/oppressor mentality leads- the Palestinians. For at least 75 years, they have zealously immersed themselves and their children in a toxic stew of victimhood. They claim their plight is the fault of oppressors, while they used humanitarian aid to build nothing but plans and instruments for revenge.
The Palestinians have played a very crude version of the game, the same version that has been around for centuries- “Jews bad”.
Western liberals have introduced a much more sophisticated version, with hierarchies of victimhood, intersectionality, and more insidious forms of reward and punishment.
This Victim Game 2.0, however, terminates in the same destruction.
Until recently, Intel was a great company with cutting-edge technology. Then they instituted a policy of preferentially hiring women and certain minorities. Now Intel is mediocre at best and losing market share fast, being left in the dust by Nvidia and AMD.
The media never reports the real reason for the fall of Intel: ESG and Identity politics have consequences.
It’s tricky, as a ‘privileged white person’, to try and tell anyone that this inversion of racism (people of colour now being racist against white people) is complete inorganic nonsense. Anyone having gone through the school system in the last 5-10 years has been indoctrinated into the cult of identity politics, believing that all whites are racist, and anyone denying their ‘truth’ is considered utterly contemptible by the wokesters.
You’ll find that people are people, regardless of their ethnicity, race or gender. There no exceptions to assholes, idiots or good kind people. There is no special genetic code that defines behaviors, with exceptions for psychopaths. Rotten circumstances can bring about genuinely awful character. The best ride above that. Hopefully they can sometimes extend a hand up.
I think that the received conservative analysis of Wokeness gives too much prominence to the idea of it as an ideology. It is way too confused and self-contradictory to count as any kind of intellectual system however toxic and wrong-headed. Its essence is a poisonous PSYCHOLOGY.... a longstanding disdain of 'educated' white people for their less 'educated' white peers. All the shallow sanctification of 'oppressed' 'identities' is at bottom mostly a proxy swipe by the 'virtuous' 'educated' whites at their notional 'deplorable' peers. Of course 'educated' non-whites latch on to it too... (it's just too self-flattering for them to pass up on).
It's also a misunderstanding in my view to see it as a new thing.... it's just that the vast expansion of tertiary education has put it on an exponential upward surge.
It certainly does have religious characteristics though.....a kind of death spiral of Christianity maybe.
Any appeals to "white solidarity," something I have never ascribed to let alone believe that there was a "white" culture I ascribed to cranks and cooks. unfortunately i am seeing those appeals from people today who I may not agree with but are by no means Cooks or cranks. J Peterson said it several years ago. The powers that be are taking away the choice. If people are forced to divide by race, they will and you are not gonna like the results.
I don't think "white" people see themselves as part of that particular group, identities are far more atomized (WASP, Italian, German, Spanish, French etc.) and the political divisions are quite real. Something that somewhat changed this in the US was Clinton sounding like all Trump voters and "America First" people are deplorable. There might be a trend coming about a group identity that is not based on skin color but on shared values. But most of the DEI stuff is spearheaded by "white" people too, it's class warfare hiding behind identity politics.
agree with you and for someone who was married to a woman of Swedish decent for 25 years (God rest her gentle soul) and is now married to a Greek woman, viva la difference!!! lol
But more important, you are right, this is about class. generally the "white" stuff really means "bourgeois." but now that the Marxists have abandoned the working class for their unforgiveable betrayal of noticing capitalism improved their lives, they have kinda lumped the groups together. Its insande but it works for them.
I think there's power -- and mental health benefits -- to reaching across the identity divide and realizing our essential commonality as human beings. As a gay man, it's tempting to think any problems I might have stem from my sexuality (or societal homophobia) but I don't think that's true. Addiction, lonliness, broken relationships, these problems are endemic to modern life among both gays and straights.
I never think of my straight brothers and sisters as enjoying "heterosexual privilege." Yes, it's true that on balance it's more challenging to be gay than straight. But each of us come to the present moment with complex histories involving myriad advantages and disadvantages. I refuse to put my pain on a scale and weigh it up against anothers. As if I could possibly put all of our "intersectional identities" into a computer program that would spit out a correct answer! It can't be done and it would be disrespectful to try.
Great article, but I think we're at about peak woke right now. Obviously the Claudine Gay scandal blew a hole in the side of the DEI industry, but also James O'Keefe's recent video showing IBM (?) was blatantly using discrimination in hiring practices. The courts are slow, but they work. I think it helps that people have a pretty basic understanding of fairness, and elevating OR diminishing a person based on race is simply not fair.
I truly hope you're right. The links I followed describe activities from 2-5 years ago. Do we have any evidence that some of these programs are being rescinded? I can guess that any clawbacks towards color-blind society would garner less press than the DEI moves.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/22/google-meta-other-tech-giants-cut-dei-programs-in-2023.html
Tech companies like Google and Meta made cuts to DEI programs in 2023 after big promises in prior years
By mid-2023, DEI-related job postings had declined 44% from the same time a year prior, according to data provided by job site Indeed. In November 2023, the last full month for which data was available, it dropped 23% year over year.
Thanks for the update. That's promising. But even if actual DEI-related postings are down, many companies can retain identity-based targets for employment and senior management.
"AKA everyone except “cis hetero white men."
Don't forget Asians and Jews too. These missing identities are inconvenient slips in their minority victim purity vows that shoots a hole in their claim of "caring" motives, and even threatens the argument that what they have is a religion. Because it would be like Christians saying that Jesus is good, except if Jesus would not vote for Joe Biden. A cult is a better definition... but I would call it a political cult.
The power behind the woke identity game seems to be coming from two sources. One is the radical feminists, and low-T male, and cohort of the children born of upper class coastal liberal parents. Hold that thought aside for a bit.
The other is the WEF globalists that exploit the former.
Both have a shared goal to tear down American society for their own purpose. The WEF globalists know that Brexit and Trump are indications of the rapid, but inevitable, collapse of the post Bretton Woods Global Order. Their interest is to keep democratic power in the hands of the existing corporatist and ruling class establishment in a desperate effort to prolong the Global Order. So they support anything that hobbles US economic and social stability. They want to keep looting from the US as a giant ATM and Wall Street money-making sandbox. They would wring it dry until it is just an empty shell. The US ending its 75 years of funding the security of all the shipping lanes, its pulling back from foreign conflict military spending, its stopping the export of American working class economic opportunity to other countries... all of this is tragic to those foreign interests and the top-end investor class that have gone all in on the globalism game... including the corrupt administrators that get paid from the investor class.
Soros and Schwab saw this more than a decade ago. There is a long list of countries that are going to struggle feeding their people without the safety of massive container and tanker ships going here and there with affordable insurance because the US navy was patrolling all seven seas. Today Iran is having a great time funding its Hezbollah terrorists to attack those ships. The Global Order party is coming to an end.
Now back to the radicals. They share the goal of system collapse. They do so because they cannot measure up to the standards required to gain a seat at the status table. Think about these kids... their therapy-consuming Baby Boomer parents told them that they are special... sent them to be over-educated and many saddled with big student loan debt. They launched late into the working world with oversized expectations (entitlements) only to find that those cis white males, Asians and Jews would outperform them in competition for economic and social status. So they collect together and form a mob of grievance with a cult scripture that would elevate them up that status ladder... not because of any demonstrated capability... but because they are a non-binary, trans, black, birthing person.
What ALL of this woke nonsense is about... destroying the American meritocracy of production to be replaced by the same collectivist authoritarian alternative that all snibblers, whiners and malcontents dream about as benefiting them... and that corrupt tyrants also dream about as a way to gain billions of wealth from the system without having to start and grow a business that produces, for example, self-driving EVs and self-landing rockets.
Woke is a cult for the lazy and underqualified. It is also racist. But more than anything, it is a recipe for national destruction... yes, it is ruining the country.
Wow what an insightful comment; I now have a more clear understanding of the “why” for the identity politics and division it creates.
the one thing that truly undermines White supremacy arguments is that the highest earning class in the US is not white, it is Asian. How's that for supremacy. whites are barely in the top 5. go figure
i hesitate to address your comment per the Jewish part to the equation but since this is a small community, I will go there. Ackman is a case in point. The scales have dropped from his eyes, maybe they were shot off, but he is doing the lords work now. But there is a lot of explaining to do. The Jewish lobby, academics, and politicians supported this crap right up until October 7. They were cool with it until they found out they were white oppressors. They poured a lot of money into this and while the spigots have been turned down (not off) I suspect that this is a negotiation. That Ackman is going for the Harvard board too, but i worry this will all blow over, they will get rid of the oppressor/white label* and the funding will resume with the same results.
* until next time.
The Jewish community wishes to not make waves... goes with the popular flow as to not waste any time debating childish memes and thus can win at business. I think this tribal tendency is one of the reasons that conflict returns. Turning the other cheek in the face of real evil, or worse... playing a supportive role in a act to keep the monsters away, failing to recognize the danger building, makes for having to deal with a crisis in conflict later.
yea kinda like being for democracy until you realize its 2 wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner.
Im not saying tey should trust those on the right as it was conceptualized in the 50's, but that is the right from long ago we are talking about. now everybody but the hard left is ultra maga. there is plenty of room for reasonable people with center right/left views to chart a new course. will l they be in or go back to the radicals?
Sorry, you spelled Gen X incorrectly. This mess greatly accelerated with Gen X having kids. The "my kid deserves a trophy for breathing" generation.
Why yes... the children of the children of the Baby Boomers. The cycle of dysfunction continues. However, I do see that the Gen-X generation has a legit gripe given what the establishment managerial and ruling class did to them with useless wars and the great financial collapse of 2008. Gen-Z is just a psycho-ops mess from the radical feminists controlling the education system, social media... and all fueled by a corrupt corporate media committed to constantly enraging them to burn the place down... even though they have no life skills to survive if the place burns down.
When Marxism was at last proved to be not just a failure, but a destructive blood-soaked disaster, it was given safe harbor to recuperate and reinvent itself in American academia, where a phoenix named Social Justice rose from its ashes. That this dagger aimed straight at the heart of Western Civ and its Enlightenment project, stoked by a bottomless raging hatred of America, was almost entirely subsidized by American taxpayers is just a rich historical irony and proof that Marx was right about at least one thing—capitalists will sell you the rope you use to hang them.
But now Social Justice is the official state religion of the entire Anglosphere and most of the Western world and is locked in as the sacred belief system of just about everyone under 30 and college educated and anyone aspiring to any professional or managerial career—thus completing possibly the largest mass conversion of a nation or Empire since Emperor Constantine.
The only reason "Woke" seems to be winding down is because the war has been won, the capitals conquered and the temples operating under new ownership (1776 has been scrubbed out by 1619), so there are only occasional mopping-up operations needed here and there when a peasant uprising breaks out.
This will only be changed by war (whether foreign or civil) or some economic and/or social collapse none of us would want to live through—everything else is just background noise.
One thing is for certain if this social justice ponzi scheme continues unabated:
The white "saviors" will eventually get justice when the sacred cows impartially oppress them. It is only at this point the "new" oppressors will have equality.
How that looks is 50/50 to me. It's either soaked in blood. Or soaked full that it no longer holds "water".
No matter what it will soaked in the tears of the "saviors".
and we are depending on Bill Ackman to save us, he is going after Penny Pitzker now, which is basically team Obama and t focal point of the madness.
We dont get to pick our heroes but take them as they are.
You're right. In this case we really don't have a choice.
He better be ready to take on the machine
Im a bit afraid of the monster we may be creating if he wins!
good night!
Yeah. Now you have me thinking.
sorry
Mind blowing. You captured this takeover so well, how it happened slowly and then all at once with the tumults of 2020. I think we underestimate the unprecedented mass brainwashing impact from the combination of pandemic hysteria/fear, lockdown boredom, cell phones and Floyd's graphic death replayed endlessly, beating the drum of racial injustice like some ritual penance. It was such perfect storm for the vulnerable brains of young adults, the narrative and the drama so sexy. Now they've taken over every institution around here in the Northeast, including the police which I still don't get, even though it's more purple than blue in our area. DEI ideology doesn't feel past peak to me because it's locked in to state health, education, and government guidance, as you point out. It's going to take major pushback, but people are scared, complacent and also sheep. The woke vanguard seem to have the youth mesmerized for now and are pressing their advantage with mobs in the streets chanting By Any Means Necessary and attacking Christmas trees. Optimism would be premature, by a long shot.
In the late 1990s I fired a transsexual worker because she was an asshole, impossible to work with. I got an immediate call from HR telling me to rescind the firing because I was exposing the company to liability in any claim of discrimination. My response was "I would fire any non-transsexual employee for the same behavior; you are telling me to discriminate in favor of the transsexual employee to avoid any charge of discrimination. Say that aloud five times then call me back.
A new system of discrimination & reward based on an ever changing set of standards that are not agreed upon by its membership which is not clearly defined & is not in any majority nor do all if even a plurality of its supposed membership agree with its aims & restrictions seems destined to at least break up. Probably acrimoniously. This certainty is nearly guaranteed by the leadership of its organization being composed mostly of their historical oppressors. I would predict the initial fissure to be between Black Americans & Latinx members like the gang wars that ravage many large Liberal run cities. Sadly Rodney King’s appeal that we all just get along will be long lost in what ensues.
Reality is providing us with a prime example of where the oppressed/oppressor mentality leads- the Palestinians. For at least 75 years, they have zealously immersed themselves and their children in a toxic stew of victimhood. They claim their plight is the fault of oppressors, while they used humanitarian aid to build nothing but plans and instruments for revenge.
The Palestinians have played a very crude version of the game, the same version that has been around for centuries- “Jews bad”.
Western liberals have introduced a much more sophisticated version, with hierarchies of victimhood, intersectionality, and more insidious forms of reward and punishment.
This Victim Game 2.0, however, terminates in the same destruction.
Until recently, Intel was a great company with cutting-edge technology. Then they instituted a policy of preferentially hiring women and certain minorities. Now Intel is mediocre at best and losing market share fast, being left in the dust by Nvidia and AMD.
The media never reports the real reason for the fall of Intel: ESG and Identity politics have consequences.
It’s tricky, as a ‘privileged white person’, to try and tell anyone that this inversion of racism (people of colour now being racist against white people) is complete inorganic nonsense. Anyone having gone through the school system in the last 5-10 years has been indoctrinated into the cult of identity politics, believing that all whites are racist, and anyone denying their ‘truth’ is considered utterly contemptible by the wokesters.
Most people of color have always been racist against people.
You’ll find that people are people, regardless of their ethnicity, race or gender. There no exceptions to assholes, idiots or good kind people. There is no special genetic code that defines behaviors, with exceptions for psychopaths. Rotten circumstances can bring about genuinely awful character. The best ride above that. Hopefully they can sometimes extend a hand up.
I think that the received conservative analysis of Wokeness gives too much prominence to the idea of it as an ideology. It is way too confused and self-contradictory to count as any kind of intellectual system however toxic and wrong-headed. Its essence is a poisonous PSYCHOLOGY.... a longstanding disdain of 'educated' white people for their less 'educated' white peers. All the shallow sanctification of 'oppressed' 'identities' is at bottom mostly a proxy swipe by the 'virtuous' 'educated' whites at their notional 'deplorable' peers. Of course 'educated' non-whites latch on to it too... (it's just too self-flattering for them to pass up on).
It's also a misunderstanding in my view to see it as a new thing.... it's just that the vast expansion of tertiary education has put it on an exponential upward surge.
It certainly does have religious characteristics though.....a kind of death spiral of Christianity maybe.
Any appeals to "white solidarity," something I have never ascribed to let alone believe that there was a "white" culture I ascribed to cranks and cooks. unfortunately i am seeing those appeals from people today who I may not agree with but are by no means Cooks or cranks. J Peterson said it several years ago. The powers that be are taking away the choice. If people are forced to divide by race, they will and you are not gonna like the results.
I don't think "white" people see themselves as part of that particular group, identities are far more atomized (WASP, Italian, German, Spanish, French etc.) and the political divisions are quite real. Something that somewhat changed this in the US was Clinton sounding like all Trump voters and "America First" people are deplorable. There might be a trend coming about a group identity that is not based on skin color but on shared values. But most of the DEI stuff is spearheaded by "white" people too, it's class warfare hiding behind identity politics.
agree with you and for someone who was married to a woman of Swedish decent for 25 years (God rest her gentle soul) and is now married to a Greek woman, viva la difference!!! lol
But more important, you are right, this is about class. generally the "white" stuff really means "bourgeois." but now that the Marxists have abandoned the working class for their unforgiveable betrayal of noticing capitalism improved their lives, they have kinda lumped the groups together. Its insande but it works for them.
kooks not cooks. I have nothing against food preparers.