From an article titled “White Fright” from Slate:

In a rather curious and confused way, some white people are starting almost to think like a minority, even like a persecuted one.

“Starting”? What, this guy’s catching on to the phenomenon only now? Sheesh. I’ve been blogging about it for years. Back in 2003, the year I started blogging, I noted the cause as being:

When we gain something, we tend to believe it is earned, not stolen; when we lose something, we do feel that a deserved reward has been taken from us. Similarly, white men are used to a superior position, and believe it is their due; when the scales are made more balanced, it feels to them as if something they have earned is being unfairly stolen and given to someone who does not deserve it.

Whites in general, up until the 60’s at least, were far disproportionately advantaged; they had more wealth, more power, more influence, more everything relative to a balanced norm. And while no one acknowledged it, it was clear that the advantage was taken, not earned.

Minorities were not underachievers; they were, like the term or not, oppressed. Most family lines started from literally nothing in this country, and were denied most opportunities open to whites; they received substandard education, and were constantly discriminated against and shut out, a situation that lasted openly for a century after slavery was ended, and has continued more quietly since.

But to a white person, who had indeed worked hard all of his life, the idea that any of his position or status was due to others being actively kept down was considered insulting. Racism was rationalized and/or committed out of sight, distanced from the positive achievements of white individuals. Few whites would ever know they got a position because a minority was turned down out of their field of view, by an individual who did so because of race but would never admit to it.

No, whites felt they had what they had because it was rightfully theirs. Their race, their religion, their views, all naturally dominant. So when it started being less than dominant, there was no other explanation than that it was being stolen from them. Because if it weren’t, that meant their position in life wasn’t 100% honestly earned, and that was not something they would consider.

It helped that while the unfair elements that helped them were so easily dismissed, and yet even the weak and partial systems of redress, such affirmative action regulations and legislative & court-ordered quotas, were not only visible but so easily vilified. Over the past 40 years, little if any racism in matters of record is overtly committed, and so is deniable as a cause (we are, after all, a “color blind” society now, and any accusation of racism is vehemently and automatically denied as an unfair charge no matter how outrageous the offense), and so whites can act as it there was nothing helping them at all.

Minorities are told that any achievement they make must be viewed as tainted if there is a chance that any equalling program played even a small role in their achievements, but few if any whites ever insist that they must feel the same way themselves about racial discrimination or past advantages ever being a factor in their achievements. So we have the mindset that there is little or no racism by whites, but that there is a good deal of “reverse racism” that subjugates them.

Whites have started to see their supremacy slip, and can only conclude that it is being stolen, and so they are oppressed. Christianity is naturally dominant (didn’t you know that everything we are as a country owes its origins to Christianity?) and so Christianity not being allowed into every last crevice is persecution.

It’s hard being a white Christian male. We suffer so.