It is a myth that gets trotted out frequently in the pages of elite magazines by those among us who wish to promote the study of the classical world as valuable to the present and by those who may be (un)consciously trying to continue to hide the field’s racism and misogyny behind a sanitized story of (white, male, Euro-American) greatness.
Whites are only 30% of the world's population yet they pose the "greatest threat" to the other 60% or so? In my opinion, this is nothing but garbage.