brutereason:

“Conservative men know that their safety, their personal lives, and their livelihoods aren’t in danger — not really. But their power is. Their power fades, albeit slowly, with every protest, every new voter registration, and every time a woman comes forward to say she’s been hurt by one of them. And since many of these men believe that their power is an inalienable right, the threat of losing it can feel like annihilation.
That’s why so many powerful, white, conservative men are now adopting the language of victimization, fueling the backlash against feminist progress.”

— There Is No War on Men (But Maybe There Should Be?)

In reinforcing their identity as victims, they can attack others and hide behind the apparent bullying they face. By talking about themselves as an endangered species they can treat ethnostates as a valid option. By making everything an attack on them, it makes it okay for them to retaliate by attacking women, blacks, jews, anyone who wrongs them