The article is about DEI policies hurting white, millennial males. Again, I don't think you actually know what point you're trying to make. Ostensibly you've asked us to agree that this is happening and that a well intentioned policy is having negative consequences. Many posts have pointed out while we may understand why he feels that way, the objective facts simply don't support it. For some reason, you seem to find these responses unacceptable and disappointing. It seems the only response you want is complete agreement this bad thing is happening.
I get that anecdotes exist. I get that people may feel that they are being treated unfairly. I empathize with the anger and resentment that feeling can create. But I also think it is mistake to blindly agree with what I believe is a faulty analysis of the problem. I can commit to addressing actual problems that contribute to their lot in life, including inequity in how the fruits of labor are distributed.
This isn't me rejecting someone's "personal lived experience" as you want to say. Again, I empathize with the way they are feeling. But just because they feel that way doesn't make it true. Are there individual instances of unfair treatment at companies that had poorly implemented DEI policies? Sure, I believe there are. Is there widespread unfair discrimination against white, millennial men? No. That statistics don't support that. Those men just don't have the same level of unfair privilege that they've had before. 28% of the population doesn't get to have 70% of the good jobs. And it especially doesn't get to do it when entering fields where it only makes up 10% of the applicants.
What does unfairly affect a lot of white, millennial men is the refusal of the wealthy to share in the fruits of everyone else's labor. If they did so, you'd have more, better paying jobs, and more opportunities for advancement. I'm down for fixing that. And I'm down for telling them I understand your frustration, but this is how we address that issue, not blaming the DEI boogie man.
Again, I ask you, what are you trying to accomplish here? Why are you disappointed in what I see as a pretty thoughtful discussion? If you don't believe there has been systematic discrimination against these men, why are you insisting that we agree with them?