They need a new word for "minority"

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privilege

This all seems to me to be so much reaction from those who perceive in a dissipation of their own privilege.

By attempting to lump together all disadvantaged populations into a single amalgem, and thereby suggested that taken collectively they cease to be a minority, those who fall into none of the disadvantaged populations seek to demonstrated themselves to somehow be themselves disadvantaged.

It's an offensive approach.

-Men continue to outearn women in the workplace, and tend to hold a disproportionate number of leadership positions in government and industry.
-People of western european ancestry similarly outperform members of other national and ethnic origins.
-Heterosexual couples without children tend to receive higher levels of state subsidy than same-sex couples.
-Aboriginal people trail behind settler populations in almost every economic indicator

And the comparisons can go on.

To suggest that the white, anglo-saxon, protestant, heterosexual male is a disadvantaged minority is to completely belittle the experience of every disadvantaged population in our society. The face is that white, male privilege still gives this man a better chance of access to a greater share of economic prosperity from the moment of his birth.

As for nomenclature, I care not whether we misuse the word, "minority," or craft neologisms, provided that we do not, within this semantic exercise, lose sight of the fact that we are talking about people's access to their fair share of opportunity.