At the end of the day while empathy and attention are not zero-sum games, outcomes are. There are only so many jobs and university enrollment spaces available. If you're a white male and the only rhetoric you've heard since you were in grade school is that we need to get more women and more minorities into better jobs and get them more education, you eventually see that you're the one on the outside looking in.
I don't think most people are against equal opportunity but when you blow past equal opportunity and still see the championing of DEI initiatives, championing of women in STEM, championing of support for immigrants you're going to end up with a disenfranchised, angry group of people.
It's easy to just cast them aside as privileged and ignorant (news from social media, don't understand DEI). But I don't see any politicians bringing up male suicide being 4x the rate of female suicide, white males suicide rate is 2x other races or white males being responsible for the majority of mass shootings. White men have historically been privileged far above any other group for centuries now, but that doesn't help our young men today and imo should be completely irrelevant to how we approach DEI.
Anyways I've gone way off topic here, so I apologize. As someone with two very young white boys I honestly worry what the world is going to look like for them and their mental health outcomes.
https://www.brgeneral.org/news-blog/...-most-at-risk-