The author doesn't do a particularly good job of hiding the fact that this article is little more than a complaint that "his side" (white, Christian, conservati

The author doesn't do a particularly good job of hiding the fact that this article is little more than a complaint that "his side" (white, Christian, conservative majorities) no longer enjoy unearned first-class citizen status in much of the West, at the expense of minority demographics. Merit is one of the fairest ways to determine justice and access to capital, it's the central point of post-Enlightenment thinking. When you're suggesting (with little justification) that privilege and aristocracy are superior to merit, how are you not essentially arguing for a return to a first-class status determined by a combination of power, circumstance, and one's adherence to mythology?