Is it normal i feel that my identity pushes me towards right wing politics?
Let me start by saying that I grew up poor and am a white male. I went to a terrible school that was originally built as a prison and converted over later. I would be threatened by ethnic gangs everyday and occasionally attacked. My childhood was particularly miserable because I was white and therefore a target.
I would grow up to be somewhat wealthy and I always make time to study at university part time because I love learning. However there is always a barrier within the circles I currently move in because I will stand up and advocate for poor white people, men in general and I won't tolerate people marginalizing my opinions for being a white male. I think that last point is the reason I end up in the right wing or even far-right wing camp.
I know what it is to be in a marginal essentially voiceless group. Yet whenever I talk with left wing groups if I speak on a disagreement about an issue of gender, race or religion, I am immediately told that as a white male I just can't understand. I also feel responsible for advocating for poor children growing up like me, facing the same issues I did because I don't see other people doing that. Sure white people in general have plenty of political voice but not the poor among them.
It actually sucks because I am left wing on economic principles, I'm not a white supremacist, I'm not anti-immigration and I am not anti-gay. Yet at least in the right wing if I disagree with something I am not immediately dismissed as a privileged white male.