My cousin in tech complains about how “white males” are discriminated against in the workplace and they can get fired easily due to fake claims of racism. He is not white nor does he work with people physically in the office so he never hangs out with any of them (it’s also his first job after graduating so it’s not like he has a ton of incidents to name) lol
Because the idea of whiteness is so closely tied to class conflict, I've noticed a lot of minorities who have made it to a socioeconomic class where the huge majority is white, they start to believe that they are white themselves
They probably need to believe they've made it to where they are completely fairly and wholly due to their efforts so they need to believe that minorities are only poor because they choose to be or don't work hard enough
Seen it a lot with black celebrities and asian tech and finance PMCs/executives
"Provisional Whiteness" is definitely a phenomenon. As long as you support the White media line and make enough money to gain status, you can be "at the table" until the next social panic that you're a target of. If you consider the construction of Whiteness as the elite consensus on in- and out-groups, you can observe this dynamic beyond the fiction of "race", as well. "Model minority" applies just as well to the South Asian Tech CEO as it does to the Trans CIA Agent and the Female Politician, and these are all provisional cutouts in the fabric of Whiteness which by default admits only the kkkrakkkerest kkkrakkkers available. Reactionaries exist in every polity, and their position and goals depend upon remaining White at any cost. EDIT: It occurs to me that this last thing applies equally to Classical Whites and can be understood as a motivation for reactionary White peasants and workers in the Empire defending their position in the near-bottom end of the ladder of Whiteness as the social structures of dignity deteriorate under late capitalism. The White class is shrinking, and this leads to the social psychosis of the Aggrieved White Man.
i knew one of those chinless gymbro 'i have a n*rdic jawline' white supremacists, and watched people mock his weak chin.
it did succeed in making him shut the fuck up.
it also succeeded in aggravating him into murder-suiciding his brother and a neighbour, so i can't say it made him any less racist.
Mandibular prognathism could have saved him, he would still be a dipshit tho
No it's a perfect one because it's one of the few scenarios where I can be racist and not be cancelled
I guess it's okay if you are from the same origin/ethnic group/whatever as them
My immigrant coworkers constantly talk about how bad DEI is and they include themselves in it. There isn't even a sense of themselves being an exception. The vibe is literally "I shouldn't have this job".
"It's okay bro, I too hope reactionaries win and make your life utterly miserable"
I thought corporate DEI was incredibly cringe until I went to one of the sessions, and then I knew that it was unbelievably cringe, but even so the baseline understanding & attitude toward equality by dudes at the company is so fucking bad that it is definitely necessary.
