Jacob Savage: The Lost Generation (on the Blatant Discrimination Against White Men Wrought by DEI etc.)

Definitely worth a read.

One thing he gets wrong, though:

He throws the obligatory elbows at Boomers and Gen Xers, basically saying that white dudes of those generations got theirs, and then threw his generation of white dudes to the wolves...

...which may have been true in Hollywood or whatever.

But in academia, the blatant demographic preferences kicked in just as I was hitting the job market in the early '90s. I'm not whining; just statin' facts.

I've fought this shit my whole career--sometimes effectively, sometimes not. I'm still fighting it now. I'll be fighting it until I retire or die--because if you think it's gone, you're delusional. In academia, anyway.

   My standard line:

   DEI wasn't the main problem.

   DEI was--and still is*--just one (very successful and effective) tool of the left.

   But the problem is the left itself.

   It runs academia, and, though it's cowering right now, it's seething, too. It'll be back as soon as the Dems come back to power. In fact, it'll start emerging again in VA to some extent as soon as Spanberger et al. are sworn in.

   Anyway.

* I was in a big meeting just yesterday in which there was a reference to "equity" as a goal. (In fact, it was in a context something like something something...and, of course, equity... I couldn't figure out what exactly was being said, so couldn't really challenge it.)