I think that is the intention. That’s one of the reasons it disturbs me. The other reason, which is far more troubling, is the truth it contains, because real grievance is much more powerful in politics than the confected variety.
Look at this thread. Multiple people are copping to the fact that yeah, millennial men probably were discriminated against en masse in certain fields for about a decade exclusively based on their race and gender, but most are kind of brushing them off as “mediocre white men.”
But since the vast majority of all people in the workforce and population are pretty mediocre, what y’all are really saying is that it’s fine for an individual to have their opportunities limited because of their race and gender if it squares up the ledgers of representation grievances. That’s a real political problem for progressives, among other things.
Maybe he is, but I’ve seen a lot of what he’s describing. It was pretty pervasive at big companies and in tech for about a decade. Again, it’s going viral because people are recognizing their own experiences in the essay.