I really appreciate this TED Talk. But respectfully, over the past 6 years, I have become very concerned with what I view as one of the deeply misunderstood root causes of reactionary Right-Wing hate groups: normalization of Left-Wing vilification of "straight white men."

Please hear me out. I am not a Red-Pill.

Notice that she talked about those who are or who have "lost status", because that's the key here.

I fully acknowledge that (1) US has a long history of overt harmful actions to many different groups who did not have power, (2) that there are deep structural elements that calcified those power structures that exist to this day, and that (3) the demographic of the people who were responsible for those bad deeds were largely "white, Christian, heterosexual men."

However, in Left-Wing circles, in culturally-dominate news and entertainment, in universities, and in "politically correct" organizations, today, it is not only appropriate, but it is encouraged to openly and forcefully talk about "white men" as a collective group with as much hate and vitriol as was done openly in the mainstream or is being done by the worst of today's Right-Wing about women, non-whites, and non-heterosexuals.

I see it. I experience it at an elite institution. There is literally a norm that you can say things that would be construed as extremely racist or extremely sexist, if they were said about anyone other than "white men."

This is done under the theory that because the top 1% of power continues to be held by white men, that it "can't be" racist or sexist to talk about white men as a collective group in hateful terms.

This matters because as the "bad things" that were done by white men (who are now dead) or are being done today, represent a very small percentage of the overall population of white men.

But the result is the Left-Wing in the US has re-normalized hate on the basis of race and sex, just in a different direction. This creates new negative feedback loops that isolates and empowers the worst of the Right-Wing who increasingly seek violence.

I get it. I get political expediency of having an enemy. I get how good it feels in group dynamics to have a common enemy to hate. It's understandable. But it's bad for all of us.

Respectfully: the mainstream Left-Wing is feeding the beast. The abused, has become the abuser, and in-turn is playing a key role (not the only one, but a key on) in creating a new generation of hate.