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They're not abandoning anything. They simply don't feel the need to hide it anymore.
They finally have the implied permission they've always craved to return to the days when white guys controlled everything, minorities (now including LGBTQ+) can't sit at the same counters in delis, and they could smack their secretaries on the ass and say "thanks, toots."
This is who they've always been.
rich people controlled everything.
Fixed that for you. To imply that no white cultures have ever been vicimized is erasure on a colossal scale.
I'm referring specifically to the United States in the pre-civil rights era. Not on a global scale, so simmer down with your umbrage thanks. I've got enough education that know that slavery and other forms of oppression have crossed the colour barrier. But in pre-civil rights era U.S. it was clearly WHITE people. Yes, there were poor white people who had it hard as well, but they weren't getting lynched and their towns burned to the ground ON TOP of that.
If you can point me to one American poor white person who had to go through something like the Tulsa massacre, I'll accept your rebuke. If not, kindly go away.
Irish and Italian people were brutally oppressed and segregated in the 18th and 19th centuries in the US and Canada.
Hell, there is even a famous movie about it.
Not to mention that the brutally oppressed history of the Slavic people going back over a millenia.
Do I deny the Irish and Italians were treated like shit? No, of course not.
But let's not forget that an Irish Catholic won the presidency while Jim Crow laws were still largely in effect.
There is an ocean of difference between being hated by your neighbours, and having a government that literally enshrines your exclusion into law.
Except discrimination of the Irish(at least) was enshrined in law, just not during the Jim Crow era.