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Tag: "Affirmative Action" - 152 items found.

Dec 22, 2025 ~ 'Hey Boomers and Gen X, if You Think DEI Has Been Bad for You, Ask a Millennial or Gen Z Guy' "Over time, the drive to 'diversify' the workplace, elite institutions, or even the police and fire departments would create problems, but the chances that anybody you know would be directly harmed seemed small. That's not true anymore, and especially not so for the younger generations who are getting creamed in the job market, or for the rest of us as our important institutions become filled with incompetents or ideologically-driven nincompoops." "Younger people—especially white, heterosexual men—are now being denied opportunities en masse because of their immutable characteristics. What was a fringe problem as I moved up in the world is now the dominant fact of life for millions of younger men, and will even be more so for the kids who are being educated in schools and universities that are populated by the DEI-obsessed." "If 80% of your old hires are white men and you want to 'diversify,' hiring more white men, even if they are the best for the job, is a bad move. If a 'diverse' person leaves, they must be replaced with a 'diverse' person. If a position opens, it's a prime opportunity to increase 'balance' or even overcorrect. Many institutions that used to be dominated by white males have relegated them to minority status." “For a typical job we’d get a couple hundred applications, probably at least 80 from white guys,” the hiring editor recalled. “It was a given that we weren’t gonna hire the best person… It was jarring how we would talk about excluding white guys.” "The pipeline hadn’t changed much—white men were still nearly half the applicants—but they were now filling closer to 10 percent of open positions." "Suddenly, in Andrew’s newsroom, everything was driven by identity. There were endless diversity trainings, a racial “climate” assessment—at one point, reporters were told they had to catalog, in minute detail, the identity characteristics of all their sources. Andrew had been instrumental in forming the union at his company, and objected when negotiations shifted from severance pay and parental leave to demands for racial quotas. “They wanted to do like ... emergency hires of black people,” he said. When he questioned these new priorities, the response was swift. “On a Zoom call, women would clap back at something I was saying and other women would snap their fingers in the [chat] window,” he recalled. “It was this whole subcultural language being introduced wholesale.” "The Atlantic announced that three-quarters of editorial hires in the past year had been women and 69 percent people of color. The irony was, where older white men remained in charge, especially where they remained in charge, there was almost no room to move up. “If you hired a team of white guys around you, you were putting a target on your back,” recalled the hiring editor. At The New York Times Magazine (one of the few prestige magazines with a public masthead), Jake Silverstein, a Gen-X white man, serves as editor-in-chief, and Bill Wasik, another Gen-X white man, serves as editorial director. But of nine millennial senior editors and story editors below them, there’s just one white guy—and he’s been there since 2012, effectively grandfathered in." "Since 2020, only 7.7 percent of Los Angeles Times interns have been white men. Between 2018 and 2024, of the roughly 30 summer interns each year at The Washington Post, just two or three were white men (in 2025, coincident with certain political shifts, the Post’s intern class had seven white guys—numbers not seen since way back in 2014). In 2018 The New York Times replaced its summer internship with a year-long fellowship. Just 10 percent of the nearly 220 fellows have been white men. Other pipelines dried up as well. The alt-weeklies that gave misfit young men their start have shed them entirely. There are no white men on the editorial staff of the Seattle Stranger or on the staff of Indy Week. As late as 2017, there were six white men atop the masthead for the Portland Mercury. By 2024, there was just one: the Boomer editor-in-chief." "But nothing explains the New Media story quite like Vox, whose explainers dominated 2010s discourse and whose internal demographics capture the decade’s professional shift. Back in 2013, when Ezra Klein came under fire for his start-up’s lack of diversity, Vox Media was 82 percent male and 88 percent white. By 2022 the company was just 37 percent male and 59 percent white, and by 2025 leadership was 73 percent female." And it keeps getting worse. "We were handed a country that, for all its flaws, was created on a foundation that promised ever-increasing social justice. I was born when the civil rights movement was making real strides, and have watched this country transform from one that suppressed 'people of color' to one that now suppresses people of pallor. The latter doesn't correct for the former." [Affirmative Action, CRT DIE Wokeness, Loathsome Left]

Dec 28, 2025 ~ 'Feminism, Anti-racism, and the Unraveling of Western Civilization › American Greatness' Another bombshell report documenting how businesses and other institutions are actively and massivley discriminating against white males. "Statistics from media, academia, and law suggest meritocracy has given way to ideology—reshaping institutions, sidelining men, and raising hard questions about the West’s long-term viability." "Earlier this month, Compact Magazine published “The Lost Generation,” written by Jacob Savage, a man who spent fifteen years trying to build a career in screenwriting and finally gave up. He claims he was the victim of active discrimination as a white male, and backs it up with facts:" “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… White men fell from 39 percent of tenure-track positions in the humanities at Harvard in 2014 to 18 percent in 2023… In 2024, The Atlantic announced that three-quarters of editorial hires in the past year had been women and 69 percent people of color… In 2018, The New York Times replaced its summer internship with a year-long fellowship. Just 10 percent of the 220 fellows have been white men… Since 2018, only 14.6 percent of tenure-track assistant professors hired at Yale have been white American men. In the humanities, that number was just six out of 76 (7.9 percent)… Today, just one in ten millennial programmers at Sundance is a straight white man…” "Savage goes on to gallop through every other profession in America, citing statistics for each of them. The story stays the same. White males need not apply." "The statistics offered in these two articles ought to convince any reasonable person that anti-white, anti-male bias is not just distorted fantasies promulgated by opportunistic right-wing demagogues. It is numerically indisputable, and it’s been going on, steadily getting worse, for a long time. It began back in the 1970s with affirmative action, which, in plain English, institutionalized discrimination in favor of less-qualified people if they belonged to 'protected status groups.'" [Affirmative Action, CRT DIE Wokeness, Western Civilization]

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