Everything posted by Bozo_Casanova
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The Lost Generation essay
But that’s not really what you said, is it? Let’s try this another way: You acknowledging that some significant number of millennial males feel they *personally* were denied jobs and or promotional opportunities on the basis of their gender and/or race, correct? Why do they feel that way?
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No, I've asked you to accept that members of a demographic cohort seems to *feel* that it has happened to them personally or recognize that it was happening around them. People on this thread keep talking about policy and DEI. also wouldn't use the word policy to describe what I saw or what the essay is about. It seemed like more of a social phenomena, and something distinct from DEI efforts in corporate America, such as they were. So you get the reasons why, but those reasons don't exist. They are similar to Rats Of Unusual Size in this way. Got it. The disconnect, in a nutshell. I can't do better than this.
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this is an excellent post and makes me feel better about starting this thread.
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Prepare to have your personal lived experience DESTROYED with FACTS and LOGIC
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Good post, agree about all of this. But I am fascinated by the virality of it, because it has resonated with so many people. Some of that is because it’s been picked up and amplified by the right wing social media ecosystem, but initially it was apparently organic and I don’t think that happens unless people recognize their own lives in something. Even the whining, silly as it is, speaks to the despair some readers are feeling about their future. Which, again, is fertile ground. The nexus of limited opportunity and despair is supposed to be the progressive wheelhouse. But instead, we look at this one group and recoil. This is an aside- the point above about “the disadvantaged poor” is very telling, because that’s who affluent progressives aren’t. In other words they want to do sympathy, not empathy. When they see somebody like them having a bad time, except less privileged and 10 years younger, and it seems to give them the ick.
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I never said anything about DEI policies or the disadvantaged poor, not sure what you are referring to there.
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I’m talking about millennial males because that’s who the essay is about, and it’s who I saw this happening to at that time. I infer they are angry because men under 50 shifted from supporting both Clinton and Biden by about 10 to a narrow Trump majority in 24. I never said anything about them being racist, and as I made clear earlier I think this phenomenon was general to millennial men, but particularly the white ones. No, and I don’t think it’s productive to assign them motives, for two reasons: 1) Millennials never listened to Rush or Hannity. I know what you are getting at about media, but it doesn’t apply to them. 2) Their behavior shifted. Trump didn’t win them over. Democrats lost them. But there’s a broader point here and it had a lot of do with my purpose in starting this thread. And I’m going to put it in all caps not to yell at you, but to catch the eye of people skimming a long post. 80% OF THE AMERICAN ADULT POPULATION IS GETTING SHAFTED. And on top of that, another 19% is mostly doing OK but only because they have been conscripted as Janissaries in service of the top 1%. Most progressives (who, not for nothing, live securely within that 19%) would read that paragraph and nod their head. But for some reason, progressives (broadly speaking) look at 28% of those people getting shafted and say, essentially, “fuck ‘em.”
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2025 CFP First Round - The "U" @ aggy
- NBA 2025-2026 Season Thread
Honestly it’s very hard not to love Chris Finch as an NBA fan. He’s like the modern day Jerry Sloan.- 2025 CFP First Round - The "U" @ aggy
kevmiller 5:44p A season where we do not even appear in a conference title game. Don't beat Texas And don't win a bowl/ postseason game is considered a top 5 season in the history of our program. Yeah that's sad and shows how mediocore our program really is. BTW. Your list is not anywhere close to accurate if you're basing your ranking on season accomplishments 1 edit 13 ...- Surly Boxing Thread
- For anyone thay wants more than a 4-team playoff
The only qualifiers I do like are automatic qualifiers. If you can’t win your conference you don’t belong in any playoffs.- The Lost Generation essay
Because I don’t think one can prove the reality of other people’s lived experience. It’s like when my wife’s cousin, a very wealthy Biden donor from SE Texas, looked at a poll of people saying they were worse off financially in 24 than in 2022 and he said “they’re lying!” There’s not much to say. I posted something to see the extent to which people here could relate it. The answer is not very much. It is what it is.- The Lost Generation essay
If you are asking what I think- I don’t think “white males” get shafted at the population level. I think that individual white males under about 45 who do not have money or connections or good luck get shafted sometimes, and when they do, progressives either don’t care or blame them.- The Lost Generation essay
No doubt. But what this thread presupposes is, maybe some of them do? Because that would explain a lot. White males are obviously in control of a an oversized share of the money and power in our society, but that doesn’t translate to any single person. The entire premise that a white man never gets shafted essentially asserts that me, the guy unloading the truck at the carpet store and Donald Trump Jr. all have the same privilege relative to any non-white person or any woman.- The Lost Generation essay
You made a very good point on #3, which I addressed directly.- The Lost Generation essay
Hoping? I’m hoping that progressives begin to admit the possibility that their political project should go back to welcoming and advocating for any person who is getting the short end of the stick.- The Lost Generation essay
You did, and that’s appreciated.- The Lost Generation essay
I haven’t presented any. I added my personal experience to what’s in the essay and so did @956 Worldwide. Others said they had not observed something like that, which is also fine. The other responses group into the following two major categories: 1) the author is lying 2) ok, maybe some of this did happen to millennial men but probably they are just mediocre white guys angry because their privilege was taken #1 is simply nonresponsive #2 illustrates the disconnect in this bubble- millennial men aren’t mad because their privilege got taken away- they were not in the workforce to experience anything like good times for mediocre white men. And the vast majority of you are still enjoying your privilege, which is why you have the luxury to dismiss them as “mediocre white men.”- The Lost Generation essay
One more thing, Brisket, you of all people should be able to understand the difference between population level effects of a social change and the way it might feel to an individual person , particularly when those individuals played no role in making things how they are. There’s nothing good about an individual getting shafted.- The Lost Generation essay
Some people have, an I suspected most of the reaction would be recitations of the affluent white progressive catechism, which is what I got.- The Lost Generation essay
Ok cool- The Lost Generation essay
But that’s not the point, which is the point.- The Lost Generation essay
No offense to anybody but this thread is pretty much what I expected and it’s disheartening. This board is a pretty representative sample of mainstream progressive discourse, and this essay has proven to be a really interesting Rorschach test. My hope was that some class consciousness had crept back into this part of the left as we head into the next cycle, but the reaction here and other mainstream-left spaces to this demonstrates to me that class consciousness is still mainly symbolic if it exists at all, and nominal racial representation still trumps everything. Older affluent progressives (ie Mainstream white democrats) are still struggling to find empathy with voters they need to win. It’s troubling.- The Lost Generation essay
I only know what I saw, and broad based denial of opportunity based on race and gender to people in a specific range of career bands is what I consistently observed in that period. That’s my direct, first hand, experience so I don’t really know what else to say other than that I think everyone’s intentions were basically good. That’s marketing malpractice. Going around apologizing is not how anybody wins. My point here is to locate a legitimate source of resentment, point to the modest progress that was gained, and think about what lessons it can teach. - NBA 2025-2026 Season Thread
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