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wildcat09

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  1. I actually usually chalk it up to shit luck. But if they write an article in Compact about how they just know they were secretly discriminated against for being white, then I'm going to start thinking it might be something else.
  2. Why do you keep talking about angry millennial white men? White millennial men are the least racist generation of white men there is.
  3. I don't think this really happened. I think a much more accurate description of the story this author is telling and that you're buying is that in the pivot to try to diversify, some employers in certain fields adopted poorly-considered hiring and promotion policies that were moderately discriminatory against white men. I don't think it qualified as "en masse" and I think it's likely that more often than not, they weren't actually discriminatory against white men to any substantive degree, but mediocre white men felt discriminated against because they no longer had it as easy as they used to. Jacob Savage is a mediocre writer with an axe to grind. Compact Mag is a reactionary centrist rag with a clear agenda. The essay even acknowledges that the biggest problem in the industry is its severe contraction, but they want to focus on the race angle because their agenda is to cater to entitled white boys with imagined grievances. I also question the truthfulness and accuracy of much of the piece, for the same reasons other posters have already addressed. Over the last 3 years, we've had around 30 summer clerks come through our firm. Most have been white and it's probably been a couple more women than men. Of the 30 or so clerks we've had, there's only been 4 who've been below standard. Their quality of work was poor (one even turned in a clearly-AI generated memorandum that was not responsive to the assignment), they were arrogant and rude to their peers (and sometimes even to attorneys at the firm), one got belligerently drunk at a firm happy hour, etc. They were all straight white men. They were boys who hadn't grown up. But we've never had any issues with any of the other clerks (many of whom were also straight white men). Everyone else was capable of behaving like adults, in the office and socially, did great work, and will be good lawyers. Of those ~26 good clerks, we've hired 5. Despite being good to great candidates, we couldn't hire the rest. I'm pretty sure that one of the bad clerks thinks he didn't get an offer because he imagined that we'd decided we needed to hire more women. I suspect the others have the same or similar thoughts about why they weren't hired. Is this just a tiny sample size in a unique industry? Sure. Is it any less representative of larger trends than the anecdotes in the Compact essay? Not really. Despite its whining, the essay does describe a shift that has happened and impacted mostly millennials, as Bozo notes. That change was bound to happen though, given the greater diversity of our generation and numerous other factors. 2020 got a little wacky in response to the George Floyd protests, but that was the mother of all outliers. It's still much easier to be a white man in America than it is to be anything else. It might not be as easy as it used to be for white millennial men in media as was for prior generations, but that's less about them being white and more about them being in an industry that's an absolute nightmare to break through in for anyone. If you're an entitled, mediocre white man who thinks you deserve to get a spot on the NY Times op-ed page before you're 30 or get your first screenplay greenlit or whatever, of course you're going to be fucked. Bozo, I know you've been spending a lot of time monitoring what the right is saying these days and that you've been thinking through how to combat their messaging to white men. I could be wrong here, but the sense I get from your posting is that you think we need to acknowledge in our messaging that they've been screwed over by well-intentioned progressive policies. I think that would be a mistake. One thing that I don't think has been discussed here, is that though this essay described a phenomena that affected millennials, millennials still hold the most progressive views on diversity of any generation. Most white millennial men who've lived through what has been described are generally fine with their lot in life and think that phenomena was generally good. The rise in racism among younger people has been among Gen Z and Gen Alpha, not millennials. That's not because they've been discriminated against in hiring, that's because the GOP, the richest people on earth, and much of the mainstream media and alternate "centrist" media like Compact Mag and the Free Press all tell them they're being and are going to continue to be discriminated against. Do I have a great idea about how to counter that? Not really. But the most important thing in trying to reach that demographic is not validating that messaging. What we probably need is a not-insane Jordan Peterson of the left, who can tell them to make their bed and stand up straight and learn to act like fucking adults.
  4. I like it. Imma for President.
  5. I suspect we're going to see a pretty epic happy hour from Ana tomorrow.
  6. All the tacky gold shit in the Oval Office is just Home Depot decorations spray painted gold, so this isn't surprising.
  7. They've really got absolutely nothing. Incredible.
  8. Can anyone guess why USAID spending wasn't ultimately in fact cut to $0? Does anyone think it was a decision made by anyone in this administration?
  9. Ain't there one of those commandments against doing that?
  10. We don't just need mandatory DEI training at all places of employment, it needs to include a trip to a Holocaust museum:
  11. The funny thing is that was actually a softening of his original stance, which was implying that USAID only funded pointless studies: 10 months later and 600,000+ have died, and countless more have suffered unimaginably, as a result. A result that was predictable and in fact predicted. But tens of millions of Americans didn't give a shit because they're 12 year olds with oppositional defiance disorder and hate liberals more than they care about anything else on earth.
  12. Just a reminder that everyone's favorite pro-life pharma libertarian was all for destroying USAID, regardless of the harm that might result:
  13. Trafficked, exploited, married off: Rohingya children's lives crushed by foreign aid cuts: I don't think it's too extreme to say that the people responsible for this should be slowly lowered into vats of acid.
  14. If it hadn’t been him, something else would’ve sparked off WW1. This is way dumber.
  15. Most of Europe has not been doing nearly enough to re-arm to fight Russia. Poland is ready to go to a total war economy, but the rest of Europe is very much half-assing it. There's been a lot more talk about how they have to be responsible for their own security because we can't be relied on anymore than there's been actual action to that effect.
  16. I love how conservatives think that disagreeing with them is infringing on their first amendment rights.
  17. I sincerely think that anyone who defends this, or pretends it isn’t obviously what it is, is themselves a pedophile.
  18. When are you going to enlist?
  19. This is like that day Nicole advocated for genocide of Afghan civilians.
  20. I’ll take that as an acknowledgment that you don’t actually have any receipts.
  21. Have y'all figured out that "encounter at the southern border" ≠ illegal immigrant yet?
  22. Oh dear, another conservative who can’t read good. How sad!
  23. I think it's (trying to be) a couple plays in one. First, she's getting Trump's side out there on a lot of important issues unchallenged. E.g. the birthday note is fake, there's nothing incriminating in the Epstein files, he really cares about peace, etc. Second, she's knifing people in the admin she doesn't like, but glazing allies so that she'll have some key MAGA allies post-Trump. And third, she's giving enough grist that later she can argue she tried to stop all the worst shit, to help ensure she's got friends outside of MAGA post-Trump too.
  24. That's not new for him. He frequently speaks in the third person when talking about what someone else thinks or has said about him.
  25. This kind of shit is so fucking funny. Immigration law hasn't substantively changed since Reagan was President. Illegal immigration peaked under Bush II. But for the last ~30 years, probably ~50% of Americans have thought most immigrants suddenly showed up within just the immediately preceding 2-4 years. Nicole, you live in Texas. Does that sound anglo to you? We've got a state literally named New Mexico. Brisket has been talking about how long his family has been here for three fucking generations of these message boards. Why the fuck do you think "the floodgates" have opened just the last couple of years?
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