Many whites frame racial equality as a zero-sum threat to white survival

Evidence

Such color-blindness would be rich in irony given another of white fear’s many facets: the fear that genuine racial equality requires the end of white America. That would be the ultimate revenge—the disappearance of white folk altogether. Some believe that black freedom—economic, political, and otherwise—threatens the freedom of white people. The conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat wrote that many white people believe the nation is hell-bent on handing over the country to underrepresented groups; that all pathways to success for hardworking white people have been shut down. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 241

Categorization

• QUESTION: Reader is asked to distinguish racial habits from prejudice; this white-fear-as-survival framing could sharpen that definitional boundary.
• XREF: connects to: Progressive students who actually pursued racial equality threatened the social order