Don’t feel validated? Find a white male to blame

Article here. Excerpt:

'Much has been made, and will continue to be made, of the past week’s events at the University of Missouri and, closer to home, at Yale. These flashes in the pan do signal something important, but not what most folks think. What is at stake is the death of pluralism.
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Here's how the new rhetoric works: If you are a person of color, a woman, Hispanic, gay, transgender, Indian - whether Asian or American - or otherwise simply feeling as though the world hasn't "validated" you, then demand recognition. If you don't get it, then find a white male to blame. Claim that you don't have all you want, or that all you think you should have is kept from you, because of "white male privilege."

White males, are, in this brave new era, the writers of "winner's" history: We oppress, enjoy the legacy of oppression and refuse - unless redeemed by identification with those claiming oppression - to make amends for having reduced the prospects of others. When a white male refuses to give another what they want, the accusation is simple, and damning, in the eyes of those hurling it: "White male privilege."'