Which is both a female-centric and American-centric POV because the male of the species is hard-wired to be competitive, whatever his race, whatever his nationality. The men who run China are not White, yet they strive to maintain the position of their group and resist and resent the intrusion of outsiders. The same goes for Indonesia, Chile, Uganda or the Navajo Nation in Arizona.
Women by and large do not share this compulsion. From childhood, they tend to be drawn more to cooperative activities. "Playing house" has no winners and no losers and the end goal is for everyone to feel good about themselves. Left to their own devices, young boys will concoct some sort of competitive activity, the goal of which is to establish their ranking within the group, so everyone knows who he can boss around and who can boss him.
All will struggle to improve their station. Those lacking the drive, the knowledge, the skills, or the abilities will drift to the bottom of the heap. Those who are better equipped will fight their way to the top, and having reached it, fight to remain there.
This penchant tends to create structure and order. The resulting organization is one that can be steered and given direction and purpose. Which is the difference between a civilization that can build nations versus nomadic tribes wandering in the wilderness.
“The interview isn’t about the Confederacy per se, and the author didn’t write the title. It’s about her theory that America’s ruing class (= old White men) seek to preserve what they regard as their “equality” by creating “inequality” for others. That whenever another rising segment of the population begins to threaten their power base (as happened with the mass immigrations of the Irish & the Chinese, etc, and again with the women’s suffrage movement), the old White men invariably find a way to disenfranchise that group.”
Sure. But what that amounts to is the same. All economics and politics is a zero sum game, and in the ante-Bellum South, it favored whitey and disfavored slaves. Simplistic, BS, sure. But that’s just another example of her zero-sum philosophy, animating a narrative that continues to wreak destruction long after John Brown’s body was lain to molder in the grave.