I read the article just now. For those skewering the guy for a poorly written essay that is emblamatic of why he couldn't make it as a screenwriter, reading the last 7 pages was infinitely worse. A more damning repudiation of millennial and Gen-X white man's ability to write, indeed. Anyways, a few quick points:
1) I take umbrage with the title. The Lost Generation will ALWAYS refer to Papa Hemingway and his expat peers in Paris post-WWI.
2) I thought the essay was fine and appreciated the plight. I mentioned this before, but I was consulting at a FAANG post George Floyd and was around some staffing of projects both contract and w2 and we were unabahsed in dashboards that tracked the HR KPI's around hiring and were very vocal about prioritizing underrepresented minorities (e.g. not white OR asian/indian) and underreprsented minority (e.g. not male, but else). I've heard from friends that era has been over for a while, for good or bad.
3) The fundamental issue is that in order to disrupt the old mode of white privilege and help the minorities (who are, in fact a majority), it doesn't happen without change and for the in power group taking a step back or accepting less award. There has to be a cohort of white males who lose percentage of the pie as other groups gain it, in order to more evenly disperse resources in a world of scarcity. The seeming injustice is that these white males were born and raised in a group with outsized power and representation and were coming of age in a time of political and social "reset".
4) An analogy for me is the conversation I see playing out in bad schools/neighborhoods and white flight. Sounds far removed but bear with me; the main thrust of this analogy is that a group of people are going to have to be "sacrificed" in order to right the sins of your grandfathers past. You and your children are going to have to live through the growing pains of re-integration and the trough of disillusionment (e.g. schools getting worse, crime getting worse, property values temporarily depressing, higher risks of bad outcomes, etc.) before the tide lifts and society is better through a better area.
At some point we are able to, on the surface, double ledger account for the puts and takes of this sort of social correction. The conflict I believe is a tale as old as time. When we peel the onion down we see we STILL live in a world of scarcity and we STILL only have a finite amount of resources to go around and we STILL are all competing and will either cling to the structure that exists or will push for a new structure to exist that will optimally serves us to get the biggest slice of pie. This seems to be both the human condition and the base rules for capitalism.