Millenial white males are being hammered by DEI, but while many lament this state of affairs, few question their loyalty to the liberal ideology that produced it. From Jeremy Carl at jeremycarl.substack.com (h/t SLL reader and unofficial movie critic Richard Hobby):
The Problem with Jacob Savage’s Viral Article on Millennial White Men.
Jacob Savage’s just-released article in Compact, “The Lost Generation,” has generated huge buzz online, with some calling it the article of the year and well-known commentators such as Abigail Shrier calling it “the single best long-form piece I have read in a very long time.”
At first blush it is easy to see reasons for their enthusiasm. Savage writes compellingly and examines in exhaustive detail and with many references to his personal story, the dispossession of and discrimination against young white men that has rapidly accelerated over much of the last decade or so.
As someone who has spent a great deal of time during that same era writing and talking about the subject of anti-White racism and highlighting data and anecdotes similar to those the author has unearthed, most particularly in my book The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism is Tearing America Apart, you might expect me to be a huge proponent of the piece. But while there is much to recommend it, there are also large blind spots that impede the author’s analysis. And the fact that this particular piece has so grabbed public attention despite its glaring flaws indicates that the right is still not having the sort of discussion on race that we need to have.
First, let’s give Savage his due. He has done his research and the data he cites is striking: From prestige media to elite universities to Hollywood, there is compelling statistical and anecdotal evidence of severe discrimination against White men, in particular against millennial Whites. But this is only part of the story.
Are they loyal or they just want to get with the girls, even the mean ones?
It doesn’t work and never will this New Man workers utopia.
Leave it in the 19th century.