It was not in fact a racist view. It's a view about power dynamics in a system that is racist and sexist. If you really can't get over your feelings of persona

It was not in fact a racist view. It's a view about power dynamics in a system that is racist and sexist. If you really can't get over your feelings of personal insult and your need to defend white men, then please go back and substitute "part of the socially dominant racial group" for "white" and "part of the socially dominant gender group" for "men". In US history, those terms are equivalent. If you don't like that, talk to the founding fathers who set it up that way. The reason it's material here is that a large portion of Twitter abuse is related to this. You can look at famous incidents, for example. Leslie Jones received a giant wave of racist, sexist abuse: https://www.thecut.com/2016/08/a-timeline-of-leslie-joness-horrific-online-abuse.html https://www.thecut.com/2016/08/a-timeline-of-leslie-joness-h... And the company admitted they had failed massively: https://people.com/movies/twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-speaks-out-after-leslie-jones-troll-abuse/ https://people.com/movies/twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-speaks-out... You could also look at the differential experience of white men versus others on Twitter. E.g.: https://www.theroot.com/twitter-has-a-serious-harassment-and-abuse-problem-but-1819979725 https://www.theroot.com/twitter-has-a-serious-harassment-and... Note also your standard here. You, a white man, refuse to accept that race or gender could be relevant to a social problem until other people take the time to spoon-feed you. Why isn't it your job to know something about American history? Why isn't it your job to learn about the problem of online abuse before deciding that the privilege afforded to white men couldn't possibly be the relevant? Answer: because you were raised to believe that whiteness and maleness were the default and were good. So you choose that as your supposedly neutral stance, and require others to prove you wrong. The true neutral stance would either be "I don't know about this problem and would like to learn" or "let's assume that online culture has some relationship to the existing offline social dynamic".