That's definitely true. As an example, if you're a low-class white male kid, you're actually quite disadvantaged compared to the general population (for example in educational outcomes). But the DEI initiatives in most companies won't recognize this, as they often don't look past skin color and gender.
My brother is about 8 years younger than I, and we both grew up in a small city, but city none the less.
There really wasn’t talk about sexuality/gender beyond someone being gay vs straight, or some group of kids being in a gang (there were a few subgroups depending on ethnicity, which they proclaimed themselves)
He’s nearly out of high school, and now it’s very much focused on DEI. After the states standardized testing is accomplished, most focus is on equality of outcome talk, about how he being a young white male has oppressed groups of people unconsciously, and that he should feel guilty.
Fortunately he’s smart, and questioned this at a young age. And a family that accepts him and helps him. But I fear this stuff could make less well off kids feel excluded, shunned, and guilty, and could ferment vengeful ideologies against society, which we need far less of.
It’s sad how divided as a country we are. I hope for us to get past this, even as cliche this sounds, for the children.
I've started getting into socio-economic diversity, and having some success pushing it as a diversity characteristic at work. Whatever your other diversity characteristics are, coming from a lower socio-economic background just makes things harder.
