I have a white background. I am a white man of German descent in Germany. I am discriminated against. But not because I am white or a man, but despite being a white man. I am able to differentiate. If white men in Germany or other Western countries experience structural discrimination, then this is for individual reasons other than skin color or gender. Then it is due to reasons such as poverty, age, physical or psychological characteristics, possibly religion or other characteristics. But not because you are a white man. For being a white man, you cannot be discriminated against in Western countries because white men are structurally and systematically extremely favored.

The abolition of diversity programs also harms white men like me. Because it means that the facts underlying the discrimination are taken even less into account. Poverty-related injustices (homeless mother during my youth), structural disadvantages of neurodiversity (ADHD), stigma (experience of trauma, depression) - all of these are things that diversity programs and outreach are designed to counteract. And this is being abolished because many people are unable to deal with the true circumstances, are possibly blind to their own problems and then perceive the simplest answer as correct by starting to believe that they are being discriminated against because of their light skin color.

In 2020, white males held approximately 85.8% of CEO positions in Fortune 500 companies. Including white women, the total percentage of white CEOs was about 92.6%. If we look at the USA, about 57 percent of the population there is white, but the government is 75 percent white. The world is still dominated by colonialist and imperialist power structures - which on top of that contributes to many people seeking refuge in Western nations. For example, because large European corporations exploit people in other countries and thereby perpetuate poverty with all its negative consequences, such as criminal power structures and acts of war.

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