It's also worth pointing out queer people are being attacked under the same rubric. Politicians and prominent newscasters with Fox spent quite a bit of time blaming Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for the bridge collapse, calling him a DEI hire because he's gay. (Despite the fact that cabinet secretaries are almost always politicians rather than technical experts, and despite the fact that Buttigieg turned in a credible showing running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, which is why he's a cabinet secretary. That's how the system works.)

Straight white men are desperate to cling to their fading privilege, which used to give them a hand up over everyone else.

To them, equality feels like oppression, I guess.