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Compact published a quite thorough analysis of the discrimination millennial white men have faced since the mid-2010s, focusing on the liberal arts and cultural sectors. It does a good job of illustrating the similar dynamics at play in fields including journalism, screenwriting, and academia, interviewing a number of men who found their careers either dead on arrival or stagnating due to their race and gender. It's a bit long, but quite normie-friendly, with plenty of stats to back up the personal anecdotes. It also does a good job of illustrating the generational dynamics at play, where older white men pulled the ladder up behind them, either for ideological reasons or as a defense mechanism to protect their own positions.
A great quote from near the end of the piece that sums it up:
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Our conception of deep evil was some grainy photo of 'no blacks or irish need apply' while our job portals said 'no white men need apply'. People will soon forget, like they always do. "It was just a few seminars, and I was largely against it". If they let you have a job at all, they demanded these professions of faith where you had to confess to being a worm. No humiliation was seemingly enough. I'll remember how brazen they were.
I hold women responsible for this. Even those who did not actively support it. It's not morally neutral to accept a promotion someone else was blatantly, unfairly shut out of. Part of my disagreement with the far right on female promiscuity, aside that I fundamentally don't care about it, is that it enshrines a woman's sex life as the only expression of her morality. The far right/trad right is completely helpless because women have all this power now, and rightists have no way to acknowledge it and hold them accountable. "they're ..they're.. sluts.. and the perverted men make them do things.. they're having sex and..." I'm sure that's it, buddy.
I'm not sure what you would expect a woman getting a promotion in that instance to do. Are you expecting them to take a principled stance and deny a better livelihood for themselves for cultural reasons? They'll just hire the next woman in line.
Ah yes, the classic cafeteria tray argument that if they refuse to do the evil thing, the next guy would do it (or girl in this instance). I gotta say, I've always been schocked by the near-complete refusal of people here or in /r/slatestarcodex to sacrifice a single dollar for morality ( 'cultural reasons', lmao) . Maybe they deserved to crawl for their DEI masters. Yes, I expect them to turn it down.
Usually promotions come with a multiple dollar increase, not just a single dollar.
For what reason?
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