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Epistemic status: half-baked hypothesis
The whites who support this do not consider themselves threatened because they believe they're the "default race" in the Western culture. I don't think they're too far from truth, either. Defaults do not get explicitly favored, except by those who really care specifically about white people. (Whether they get implicitly favored or not is out of scope of this post).
Like in my example from my other reply to this, for a white progressive to support whites explicitly (for a straight progressive to support straights, for a male progressive to support males... etc) is, at best, as weird and unneccessary as it is for a business to welcome "Regular Unremarkable Customers" as opposed to "Customers with Dogs/Children Welcome". Even if you don't believe the white straight male is the root of all evil, you consider the white straight male default enough that he isn't worth any special mention. At worst, doing so is a sign of fragility and nefarious identitarian tendencies. "You already are the default, and you want the privileges of being Special on top of that?"
Is the mindset of considering "let others get theirs once you got yours" a virtue that alien?
Is the mindset of "if the privileges of being the default are being systematically eliminated by people who are Special, shouldn't the privileges of being Special be eliminated as well" that evil?
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