(This post is a bit ramble-y and very off-topic so apologies for that but I've just been having thoughts about race and gender for quite a while now so I figure I might as well get it off my chest)

As people have pointed out, it definitely just comes down to white men being angry because suddenly their great privileges are waning. If we're just talking about America and leaving the rest of the West out, the population is becoming much, much more diverse in terms of race, ethnicity and religion and so we're basically seeing a slow transformation of the status quo. And by slow I mean slow - the average white person (not even man, to be honest - obviously white women are worse off but they still benefit from huge racial privileges) will probably have a much, much easier time than me, for example, being an Indian-American that's also Muslim.

But then I would suggest that it is hard to just say that 'white men' have it better and are thus very angry when the privileges are infringed upon. How do we define that term, really? I'm probably willing to bet that, say, a Polish or Eastern European immigrant coming over to the States would be treated worse than a WASP man or woman from, I dunno, upstate New York. And then when you look at it from a European perspective, fuck, the state of brown/black people could be considered even worse - but at the same time Northwestern Europeans (Low Countries, Scandinavia, France, Germany...) in say the UK are looked upon in a much better light than someone from Poland or Lithuania. Or heck, even Greece or Italy or Spain.

And then when you look at it in a general world perspective the lines between gender and racial privilege start to get even more bloody confusing. I'm staying with my parents at the moment in the UAE, and I've sort of lived in the Middle East for about ~8 years give or take, and stuff is weird here. Arabs from certain 'bad' countries with light skin, even Egyptians and Syrians, people who for all intents and purposes almost look a little European, are discriminated against by the ruling elite in Gulf countries - and Africans with darker skin are treated in a subhuman manner unless they have some Emirati or Qatari blood in them. White people, broadly speaking, including those white people that face huge discrimination in Western Europe and the States, are venerated as these sort of divine beings with incalculable knowledge - both genders, in fact. They are seen as people that should be the faces of companies and deserve the highest pay (even if they don't work as hard as other people) and most importantly, these people are seen as expats. To be an expat is to live the life - free accommodation, company provided car, your children's education paid for, the works. Whereas a guy like my Dad, who is Indian-American and is thus the wrong sort of American and most certainly the wrong shade of brown in the eyes of his employers, would get paid much less and is not seen as an expat.

I'm steering way off course right now but I guess my point is, racial relations are bloody weird and incredibly confusing to me, and often intersect and supersede gendered hierarchies and are just altogether an odd state of affairs. I'd go into East Asia and their view on race as well and stuff gets even more confusing but then this post would become even more convoluted, so I should probably stop, haha.