Terrific explanation of the social pendulum swinging back one way in response to the prior excessive swings in the other direction:

"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.

In retrospect, 2014 was the hinge, the year DEI became institutionalized across American life."

"The fact that there existed for 10 years an active campaign of discrimination against young white males is no doubt politically radicalizing for some of them.""The fact that there existed for 10 years an active campaign of discrimination against young white males is no doubt politically radicalizing for some of them."

This is all very bad. The last thing our country needs is a young, white, male conservative movement that argues for identity-based revanchism. As the hangover from the decade of DEI finally wears off, we should get back to the libertarian/classically liberal approach to hiring, admissions, and the like: colorblindness and the rejection of affinity group-based characterization in favor of individual merit and achievement.