> These same reactionary-minded young men are often repeating mantras like “facts don’t care about your feelings”. Why don’t they apply this sentiment to their

> These same reactionary-minded young men are often repeating mantras like “facts don’t care about your feelings”. Why don’t they apply this sentiment to their own workplace grievances? You're building up a strawman-stereotype and tearing it down. Blanket affirmative-action policies are by-definition discrimination, but they are typically viewed as acceptable because they help a group that is statistically disadvantaged. Statistics, if broad enough, will mask details. If your argument starts and ends with "The group this person is a part of most likely has X feature" you will absolutely end up discriminating against some amount of that group. So someone can be a part of a group like "white men" that has, statistically, been the biggest, baddest group in the sandbox in Western society but simultaneously derive no benefit from that being a part of that class. Whether or not the ends justify the means is subjective opinion. Offering a resource to a supposed out-group overlooks the fact that members of that out-group could have come from a very privileged background. Would you rather be a wealthy minority from a well-functioning home or a white man from a poor, dysfunctional home? If you answered the latter, I would love to know why.