The article, "The Lost Generation" by Jacob Savage, has been making the rounds on conservatives sites. Briefly, the author documents how 2014 was a hinge year, "the year DEI became institutionalized across American life," with the consequence that from that point forward corporations and large companies actively discriminated against white men, which situation only became worse in 2020 with George Floyd and Black Lives Matter. He notes, for instance:
The doors seemed to close everywhere and all at once. In 2011, the year I moved to Los Angeles, white men were 48 percent of lower-level TV writers; by 2024, they accounted for just 11.9 percent. The Atlantic’s editorial staff went from 53 percent male and 89 percent white in 2013 to 36 percent male and 66 percent white in 2024. White men fell from 39 percent of tenure-track positions in the humanities at Harvard in 2014 to 18 percent in 2023.
But it wasn't felt across all white men working in the affected industries, but the younger men--the Millennials at that time--who bore the brunt of it, because rather than firing older while male employees, these organizations simply stopped hiring younger white men. And while the author focuses on writing--which was his hoped for career--you know that it was happening across the board to the extent it was possible. For instance, the author shows the same thing happen in academia.
And they discriminated against white men knowing it was illegal, so they used methods to hide its illegality:
... Berkeley commissioned regression analyses to identify which quasi-legal strategies would produce the fewest number of white male job offers. At Dartmouth, the Mellon-to-postdoc program provided ten tenure-track positions for “new hires with a demonstrated commitment to addressing racial underrepresentation in their disciplines.” None were white men.
Cluster hiring, which began in the ’90s as a way to expand interdisciplinary research, was transformed in the 2010s as a shortcut to achieve diversity goals. Entire groups of underrepresented candidates could now be hired at once, working around the often byzantine tenure approval process.
“The way you try to demographically diversify without making it explicit is searching in areas where the areas are strongly correlated with [gender or] ethnicity,” an Ivy League professor explained to me. A cluster hire in Latinx studies will gain you several Latinx faculty. A professor of transgender studies will in all likelihood not be a straight cis man. And a white male assistant professor of black sexualities is closer to an SNL sketch than to any lived reality in 2024.
The corrosive effect is that now white men don't even bother applying for these types of positions, which means that the organizations no longer have to try to hide their discrimination.
Savage ends his article with the idea that it perhaps has not been as bad for the U.S., overall. He suggests, for instance, that the women that were hired as TV writers over him were probably just as good at their jobs. But I doubt it. It seems that the enshitification of television, books, games, and more, went hand-in-hand with the DEI movement.
And what about the future? Vox Day notes that the Zoomers are even worse off and have every right to be angry. "GenX may be the first generation in US history to be worse off than its parents, but the Zoomers are considerably worse off and they are still aware of the echoes of peak US prosperity due to a) clueless Boomers booming and b) the evidence provided by television, books, and movies." Vox Day adds: "We are rapidly approaching revolutionary times. The weak men of the Boomer era are creating the hard men of the Zoomer era."
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