Jacob Savage discussed the very real effects of DEI on white men since 2014. If you are a white male, you have become a “token.” This is in every industry, as Mr. Savage details. These are the very real effects of DEI.
A few excerpts from the article will give you an idea of how the new America works, with white men excluded from industry after industry.
Instead of picking the best, Americans now pick people by immutable characteristics. This is the true dumbing down of America.
The Doors Closed All at Once
The doors seemed to close everywhere and all at once. In 2011, the year I moved to Los Angeles, white men were 48 percent of lower-level TV writers; by 2024, they accounted for just 11.9 percent. The Atlantic’s editorial staff went from 53 percent male and 89 percent white in 2013 to 36 percent male and 66 percent white in 2024. White men fell from 39 percent of tenure-track positions in the humanities at Harvard in 2014 to 18 percent in 2023.
If You’re a White Male, They Are Rooting Against You
In retrospect, 2014 was the hinge, the year DEI became institutionalized across American life.
On the one hand, you want to celebrate people who have been at a disadvantage. On the other hand, you look, and you say, Wow, the world is not rooting for you—in fact, it’s deliberately rooting against you.”
Hitting the Wall
If you were forty in 2014—born in 1974, beginning your career in the late-90s—you were already established. If you were thirty in 2014, you hit the wall.
Because the mandates to diversify didn’t fall on older white men, who in many cases still wield enormous power: They landed on us.
After the Death of the Glorified Career Criminal
In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, newsrooms tripped over themselves to stage a “reckoning.” The New York Times solemnly promised “sweeping” reforms—on top of the sweeping reforms it had already promised. The Washington Post declared it would become “the most diverse and inclusive newsroom in the country.”
CNN pledged a “sustained commitment” to race coverage, while Bon Appétit confessed that “our mastheads have been far too white for far too long” and that the magazine had “tokenize[d] many BIPOC staffers and contributors.” NPR went further still, declaring that diversity was nothing less than its “North Star.”
These weren’t empty slogans, either. In 2021, new hires at Condé Nast were just 25 percent male and 49 percent white; at the California Times, parent company of The Los Angeles Times and The San Diego Union-Tribune, they were just 39 percent male and 31 percent white. That year, ProPublica hired 66 percent women and 58 percent people of color; at NPR, 78 percent of new hires were people of color.
The demographic shift reshaped not only who told the stories, but which stories got told. After George Floyd’s death, Andrew’s colleague, Lucas, was assigned a piece about why you should never call the police. “I remember having to interview one of these abolitionists for a story about how if somebody breaks into your car or your home, it’s white supremacy to call the cops—even if you need it for an insurance report,” Lucas told me. “That always made me feel gross. I think back on that with a lot of regret.”
“Newsrooms were center-left places in 2005,” the prominent Gen-X reporter told me. “Now they’re incredibly left places… I imagine one reason newsrooms have gotten more explicitly lefty is that you have white guys and white women adopting a kind of protective coloration, allyship mindset, to get through the door.”
Brown University
In 2022, there were 728 applicants to tenure-track jobs in the humanities at Brown, 55 percent of whom were men. At every stage of the process the male share was whittled down. The long list was 48 percent male, the short list 42 percent. Only 34 percent of candidates who made it to the interview round were male, and only 29 percent of the jobs were ultimately offered to men. A similar dynamic played out in the social sciences: 54 percent of the 722 applicants were men; 44 percent of the shortlist was male, and just 32 percent of job offers were tendered to men; in the physical sciences, women were 23 percent of applicants, but received 42 percent of job offers.
Since 2022, Brown has hired forty-five tenure track professors in the humanities and social sciences. Just three were white American men (6.7 percent).
No Country for White Men
The “Big 4” galleries represent 47 millennial artists; just three are white men. At the 2024 Whitney Biennial, which featured 45 millennial artists, zero were white American men.
The white men shut out of the culture industries didn’t surge into other high-status fields. They didn’t suddenly flood advertising, law, or medicine, which are all less white and significantly less male than they were a decade ago. White men dropped from 31.2 percent of law school matriculants in 2016 to 25.7 percent in 2024.
The shift in medicine has been even more dramatic. In 2014, white men were 31 percent of American medical students. By 2025, they were just 20.5 percent—a ten-percentage-point drop in barely over a decade. “At every step there’s some form of selection,” a millennial oncologist told me. “Medical school admissions, residency programs, chief resident positions, fellowships—each stage tilts away from white men or white-adjacent men… The white guy is now the token.”
They Took Away the Dreams of an Entire Generation of Millennials
The DEI departments have mostly shut down or quietly rebranded. The mountains of reports and glossy PDFs have been quietly scrubbed, as if to hide the evidence. What was the justification for gutting the American meritocracy? No one seems to know.
There is much more in the article, a worthy read.
What do I say when my boys ask about my old hopes and dreams? What do I tell them when they ask about theirs?
I hope Trump reads this article. Stunning.
“Since 2022, Brown has hired forty-five tenure track professors in the humanities and social sciences. Just three were white American men (6.7 percent).”
The Lost Generation | Compact https://t.co/NYjH1XosvK
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) December 16, 2025
One thing I’d add to the story is that eventually DEI came for the Generation Xers, too. I was passed over for promotion to USA TODAY’s editorial page editor for a liberal white woman who had ZERO days of opinion experience and TWO years of Washington experience.
— David Mastio (@DavidMastio) December 16, 2025
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“,,,how the new America works, with white men excluded from industry after industry.”
— BUT AT LEAST THEY STILL HAVE THEIR “WHITE SUPREMACY & WHITE PRIVILEGE”, right ????
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