> Telling young people that the world is ruled by a clique of powerful old white men who conspire to keep them oppressed must be crushing, especially if done incessantly.

If you're a young white man with a fighting chance of becoming one of the next generation of powerful old white men, I can understand where you might find that unnecessarily demoralizing.

But for everybody else, it's the bitter truth they nevertheless need to know. And the only way to change this is at the systemic, political level.