"Progressives often follow a particular pattern when they want to dismiss a phenomenon that challenges their beliefs. The writer Rob Henderson summed it up in a tweet in 2021: "Step 1: It's not really happening Step 2: Yeah, it's happening, but it's not a big deal Step 3: It's a good thing, actually Step 4: People freaking out about it are the real problem.""
"Savage is correct: Women and people of color really have received preferential treatment in many elite industries in recent years. But he misses a crucial part of the story, which goes beyond gender and race. Being Black (or any number of protected identities) affords you special privileges only if you think and speak how gatekeepers believe you're supposed to. As I've witnessed and experienced throughout my career, there is a right kind of Black and a wrong one."
A recurring progressive pattern minimizes or reinterprets phenomena that challenge prevailing beliefs: denial, minimization, reframing as positive, then blaming critics. An argument contends that white Millennial men seeking jobs or recognition in elite cultural fields such as media, publishing, and academia faced structural discrimination beginning around 2014. Evidence shows women and people of color received preferential consideration in many elite industries in recent years. Those preferential benefits often depend on conforming to gatekeepers' expectations about thought and speech. Members of protected groups can be rewarded only when they present an acceptable version of their identity, creating a 'right' and 'wrong' form of Blackness.
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