Donald Trump’s pledge to fight what he calls “anti-white feeling” in the U.S. will likely embolden allies who seek to dismantle government and corporate programs created to battle racism and boost diversity in American life.

Some high-profile supporters of the former president, now the 2024 Republican presidential candidate, say policies for safeguarding people of color in classrooms, workplaces and charities should be repurposed to protect the rights of white people as well.

“I think there is a definite anti-white feeling in this country,” Trump told Time in an interview published on Tuesday. “I don’t think it would be a very tough thing to address, frankly. But I think the laws are very unfair right now.”

Trump did not specify examples of anti-white bias nor policy prescriptions in the interview.

  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    6 months ago

    The real problem is the zero-sum mentality underlying the Conservative movement under Trump. Everything is a contest, and when the other side wins, your side loses. There is no room for competing views about America, views in which we all benefit. Any policy which doesn’t directly benefit their side must be harmful. There must be in-groups that include them, and out-groups that include people they disagree with.

    DEI, if done right, recognizes the benefit they people of all backgrounds can bring. There’s no inherent discrimination against white people, but rather an acknowledgement that we can all benefit from diverse viewpoints. Sometimes you have to go out of your way to find those people, because the “system” may not be tuned to finding them.

    Trump, though, cannot acknowledge that there can be policies that benefit everyone. There are winners and losers, and he sees himself as the ultimate winner. He will do whatever he can to make sure he stays winning - and it might be more important that his perceived enemies are seen as losers.

    • Optional@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months ago

      While that’s true, the real real problem is that facts don’t matter, science is relative, and corporate news is fundamentally incapable of countering the tidal wave of garbage.

    • iopq@lemmy.world
      16·
      6 months ago

      But DEI is not used in that way. Almost exclusively used against whites and Asians who randomly count as white now.

      • Bremmy@lemmy.ml
        1·
        6 months ago

        Give one example. Against Asians who count as white?? Is that a new QAnut thing?

        • iopq@lemmy.world
          06·
          6 months ago

          honky noun hon·ky ˈhȯŋ-kē ˈhäŋ- variants or honkie or less commonly honkey plural honkies also honkeys offensive —used as an insulting and contemptuous term for a white person

          • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
            2·
            6 months ago

            I’m sorry to break this to you, but aren’t being oppressed because of your skin colour.

            But you’re in luck! There still are other tyrannies that affect people of all colours, even us whities!!

              • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
                1·
                6 months ago

                My friend, you are not. It’s your reasoning that’s causing the dunking. As I said I’m also white, so I can say this with certainty. Your point would be worthy of disparagement no matter what colour you were.

                Okay but seriously, let’s see if we can work through this.

                Do you have much exposure to people of colour? This isn’t meant as a put-down, but I remember thinking like you did before acquiring some lived experience (and doing a lot of processing). I knew a few people of colour, and felt like racism was a thing of the past. I had a kind of “colourblind” view of racism that completely disregarded historical and actual power imbalances.

                This neutral view of racism can feel logical and comfortable; it has a kind of pleasant algebraic symmetry to it, so I can see the appeal.