Being a woman, minority, immigrant, LBGTQ+, or any other designated marginalized group is like being a rock star. You get your money for nothing and your chicks for free.
Jeff: While I likely benefitted in the 1990's from Affirmative Action as part of my acceptance to a University, I can tell you that woman who are not "of a color" are now experiencing much of the same things that white men are dealing with. And this is not just happening in New York or at east coast and ivy league schools. Happened to me. Happening to ex-colleagues, etc. If I was more litigious, well...
A few demographics were missing from an informative discussion. What percent of Ivy League graduates consider themselves: gay (7% nationally), attend church regularly (30% nationally), Jewish (2% nationally), East Indian (<2 nationally), Asian (<8% nationally), live with parents as adults (18% nationally).
Clearly, we as a society are raising a generation of pansy, non-masculine males. Shocking, when one considers that “balls” and brutal force rules this complex, hostile planet!
My daughter recently graduated from a top 40 law school. Her class was dominated by single, young women. One of her classmates identifies as a Bunny!
On a more simplistic but relevant theme is the widespread portrayal of white males as subordinate and incompetent buffoons in both advertising and entertainment. The enormously outsized representation of people of color (POC to the libs) in television is embarrassingly overt and in your face...again usually with the white male buffoon theme.
I assume the majority of the culture warriors behind that absurdity are more than likely white males...although I'm confident white liberal woman are well represented (BudLite). It has become so commonplace that when an ad or production does not feature the anti-white male theme it stands out as obvious and unique.
"Gen-Z Jacob Savage says the much-heralded project to shut out white men under 35 from the corridors leading to power is led by Baby Boomer and Gen-X white men. Whether to protect themselves against D.E.I. censure or because they are true believers, people like Jeffrey Goldberg (editor of “The Atlantic”) have remained loyal to the older white guys who were already in place, while guillotining the careers of younger white men."
Thanks for the statistics that were alarming but not surprising. Look at who the people of New Yorkers elect and the verdicts dispensed by N.Y. judges and juries.
Acceptance into an Ivy League school is virtually the same as graduating as they graduate almost 100 percent of their students: therefore Affirmative Action in admissions automatically leads to a degree.
That's Manhattan though, why should that be of any concern for Santa Barbara? You're free to talk about whatever, I do all the time - but this reads as mere whistles to ones ideological camp.
"Where’s the Cato Institute, Manhattan Institute, Hoover Institution, Heritage Foundation, The Ethics and Public Policy Center, or American Enterprise Institute? With their huge cushy staffs paid for with hundreds of millions of dollars in tax-deductible donations, why isn’t anybody at these elite conservative think tanks exposing the damning facts about the discrimination that we all know is taking place?"
Well if they're not doing anything it's because they don't care, are impotent, or have other concerns. Perhaps you should reconsider your alignment with contemporary conservatism if these groups and the broader coalition of market liberals-cultural conservatives don't care for your political and cultural anxieties.
Me personally none of it is an issue given my rejection of the modern nation state and of republican/democratic forms of government, so the cultural issues too are hollow and beneath me. But that's just me.
Mr. McCalmont, my own experience validates much of your claim that white males are unfairly prejudiced against. As someone named "Robert Johnson" and born and raised in Oakland, many people and potential employers assume I am black (I'm not). While getting my MFA in screenwriting from UCLA's Department of Film, Television & Theater, I wrote a screenplay on the another Robert Johnson, the 1920's Delta Blues musician (who was black). This piece won a prominent screenwriting award which in turn got me numerous writing assignments. But on at least three occasions projects for which I had been hired over-the-phone, I was un-hired from once the producers, often embarassingly, learned I was white.
Now, these instances might be valid cases of reverse discrimination, or they might have to do with the more common fact that these projects often had white producers, white executives, and white directors and, being biopics about black people (in those cases Jackie Robinson, Whitney Houston, and Louis Armstrong), those making the hiring decisions felt they needed at least one of their above-the-line talents to be black. Which makes sense.
But more to your point, I feel the recent reduction in hirings of whites--and in particular white males--has to be put in the context of the last several centuries of American history wherein ONLY white males were hired, let alone could vote or own property or qualify for a loan or even have a checking account.
So is this current practice of reverse racism fair? Of course not. But is it inevitable? Of course it is, as it is merely the natural backswing of the attempt to balance the inequities of the past.
Shocking statistics. The hiring statistics at universities is unbelievable. Have they been sued? Great article. Thanks.
Being a woman, minority, immigrant, LBGTQ+, or any other designated marginalized group is like being a rock star. You get your money for nothing and your chicks for free.
Jeff: While I likely benefitted in the 1990's from Affirmative Action as part of my acceptance to a University, I can tell you that woman who are not "of a color" are now experiencing much of the same things that white men are dealing with. And this is not just happening in New York or at east coast and ivy league schools. Happened to me. Happening to ex-colleagues, etc. If I was more litigious, well...
Ringing the register on the happenstance of birth.
I had no idea of the stats. Very alarming and shocking that this has happened without more of us knowing this. Thank you for this information
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A few demographics were missing from an informative discussion. What percent of Ivy League graduates consider themselves: gay (7% nationally), attend church regularly (30% nationally), Jewish (2% nationally), East Indian (<2 nationally), Asian (<8% nationally), live with parents as adults (18% nationally).
Clearly, we as a society are raising a generation of pansy, non-masculine males. Shocking, when one considers that “balls” and brutal force rules this complex, hostile planet!
My daughter recently graduated from a top 40 law school. Her class was dominated by single, young women. One of her classmates identifies as a Bunny!
On a more simplistic but relevant theme is the widespread portrayal of white males as subordinate and incompetent buffoons in both advertising and entertainment. The enormously outsized representation of people of color (POC to the libs) in television is embarrassingly overt and in your face...again usually with the white male buffoon theme.
I assume the majority of the culture warriors behind that absurdity are more than likely white males...although I'm confident white liberal woman are well represented (BudLite). It has become so commonplace that when an ad or production does not feature the anti-white male theme it stands out as obvious and unique.
"Gen-Z Jacob Savage says the much-heralded project to shut out white men under 35 from the corridors leading to power is led by Baby Boomer and Gen-X white men. Whether to protect themselves against D.E.I. censure or because they are true believers, people like Jeffrey Goldberg (editor of “The Atlantic”) have remained loyal to the older white guys who were already in place, while guillotining the careers of younger white men."
Jeffrey Goldberg is a Jew.
“Goyum” need not apply!
Thanks for the statistics that were alarming but not surprising. Look at who the people of New Yorkers elect and the verdicts dispensed by N.Y. judges and juries.
Acceptance into an Ivy League school is virtually the same as graduating as they graduate almost 100 percent of their students: therefore Affirmative Action in admissions automatically leads to a degree.
That's Manhattan though, why should that be of any concern for Santa Barbara? You're free to talk about whatever, I do all the time - but this reads as mere whistles to ones ideological camp.
"Where’s the Cato Institute, Manhattan Institute, Hoover Institution, Heritage Foundation, The Ethics and Public Policy Center, or American Enterprise Institute? With their huge cushy staffs paid for with hundreds of millions of dollars in tax-deductible donations, why isn’t anybody at these elite conservative think tanks exposing the damning facts about the discrimination that we all know is taking place?"
Well if they're not doing anything it's because they don't care, are impotent, or have other concerns. Perhaps you should reconsider your alignment with contemporary conservatism if these groups and the broader coalition of market liberals-cultural conservatives don't care for your political and cultural anxieties.
Me personally none of it is an issue given my rejection of the modern nation state and of republican/democratic forms of government, so the cultural issues too are hollow and beneath me. But that's just me.
Mr. McCalmont, my own experience validates much of your claim that white males are unfairly prejudiced against. As someone named "Robert Johnson" and born and raised in Oakland, many people and potential employers assume I am black (I'm not). While getting my MFA in screenwriting from UCLA's Department of Film, Television & Theater, I wrote a screenplay on the another Robert Johnson, the 1920's Delta Blues musician (who was black). This piece won a prominent screenwriting award which in turn got me numerous writing assignments. But on at least three occasions projects for which I had been hired over-the-phone, I was un-hired from once the producers, often embarassingly, learned I was white.
Now, these instances might be valid cases of reverse discrimination, or they might have to do with the more common fact that these projects often had white producers, white executives, and white directors and, being biopics about black people (in those cases Jackie Robinson, Whitney Houston, and Louis Armstrong), those making the hiring decisions felt they needed at least one of their above-the-line talents to be black. Which makes sense.
But more to your point, I feel the recent reduction in hirings of whites--and in particular white males--has to be put in the context of the last several centuries of American history wherein ONLY white males were hired, let alone could vote or own property or qualify for a loan or even have a checking account.
So is this current practice of reverse racism fair? Of course not. But is it inevitable? Of course it is, as it is merely the natural backswing of the attempt to balance the inequities of the past.