That they feel scorned and looked down because norms of social supremacy are being upended by movements for social justice is extremely relevant here. They may feel attacked, but nobody actually did anything to them, they just feel their grip on the world slipping away... https://twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/1349777587078389760

...We need to examine this idea that if White people feel bad, we must treat that as a form of legitimate grievance. Take slavery and reconstruction, White southerners REALLY felt powerless after the economic and social basis of their culture and society were upended...

...Anybody in their precise position would feel that way. Slavery was more than an economic reality, it was a psychosocial one. It gave White southerners, whether they enslaved people or not, a definite sense of always being above a certain group of people...

...You see this constantly throughout the literature, that White southerners were incensed at the sight of millions of people who had been treated as livestock a few years ago, now free to march up and down “their,” streets, accounting for themselves to no one...

...Now, people who had been held in terror by the sight of a single White man cavalierly conducted themselves as their equals, and even superiors. That’s how the Confederacy won over poor Whites, even in their poverty, the idea of racial equality was too much...

..The end of slavery made them feel bad. The end of Jim Crow made them feel bad. The suffusion of greater awareness of racial injustice makes them feel bad, as does the barest prospect of White minority status. We can’t halt the march of history to spare reactionary feelings.