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Jacob Savage / Compact: "The Lost Generation" (on the dispossession of young white men in the US) (www.compactmag.com)
posted 189 days ago by AntonioOfVenice 189 days ago by AntonioOfVenice +69 / -0
The Lost Generation
For fifteen years I’ve scalped tickets to pay the bills. But in January 2016 I almost managed a real career.
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– AntonioOfVenice [S] 29 points 189 days ago +29 / -0

Couple of things:

  1. The year 2014 falls a lot. It wasn't just in our imagination. It wasn't because people changed. It wasn't because they started to notice things. The year of Gamergate was a turning point. And I didn't even know that all this was going on in precisely this manner. I didn't have the numbers, but I did have people trying to insult me by calling me 'just a white boy'- because that's bad. And when I say I'm not, I'm a white supremacist liar, because white supremacists have a habit of pretending to be non-white. Quite extraordinary.
  2. I can understand fans of Fuentes better now, whether or not he's a fed, because you're not going to care about 'universal principles' when these are blatantly violated in order to screw you over.
  3. How many blacks say that they have to work twice as hard to get half as much? Quite a lot. It's embarrassing. I understand not wanting to admit even to yourself that you didn't earn what you have, because it's humiliating and it's wrong. But it's white men who have to work twice as hard to get absolutely nowhere now.

But my favorite part:

The white men who do get hired are often older and more established—or foreign. Several people I spoke with noticed that European white men don't seem to face these barriers. The reason, one professor suggested, is they exist slightly outside the American culture wars. Another is an administrative sleight of hand: Federal education statistics (IPEDS) classify foreign nationals outside racial categories. In other words, a white European on a work visa doesn't register as “white” in diversity metrics. Among new Ph.Ds with definite academic employment plans, white temporary-visa holders are nearly twice as likely as white U.S. citizens or permanent residents to secure tenure-track positions (61.0 percent versus 33.1 percent in 2023).

Bureaucratic tyranny and the banality of evil in one paragraph. And to top it off, what a breaking of the social contract, to privilege people from other countries over your own people, where none of your usual stupid excuses are relevant.

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– covok48 22 points 189 days ago +22 / -0

2014 was the first year I ever heard “White” used as a pejorative.

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– something_stylish 21 points 189 days ago +21 / -0

The writing was on the wall before 2014, even for us. The US was probably much more brazen about it but I'm sure you'll remember schoool/Uni being all expectation and no encouragement or assistance. That same attitude was reflected all throughout the workforce. It was more gender-focussed than race-focussed because of the population numbers and a subdued race based consciousness over here. 2014 just seems like the time enough people got fed up of it all.

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– AntonioOfVenice [S] 3 points 189 days ago +3 / -0

I'm sure you'll remember schoool/Uni being all expectation and no encouragement or assistance.

I grew up in Europe, so my school/Uni was no encouragement and assistance, nor any expectation.

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– something_stylish 3 points 189 days ago +3 / -0

Same, I just always saw it as the expectations are more of a given and that we'd be fine regardless. So any denigration or dismissal would be of no consequence. Which was honestly fine for me at the time, because I half believed it myself. They just failed to see beyond any given instance of it for the absoulte barrage of crap that it actually was. Justified in the moment but oblivious to the totality.

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– poherf 9 points 189 days ago +9 / -0

It does seem like 2014 was the year the massive woke acceleration began. Things were trending in that direction for decades prior, but 2014 is when it REALLY started to pick up speed. We all noticed it at the time, but they’ve been gaslighting us so much for so long: “nothing is happening, you stupid nazi racist”

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– DresdenFirebomber 3 points 189 days ago +3 / -0

GamerGate

Imagine still pretending this "movement" has relevance. You ceased to stand for anything when you watched Project 2025 age gate GTA V behind Digital ID and didn't say shit.

You were nothing more than Pedo Steve Bannon's way of gaslighting young men into believing the right was any less female-centric than the left.

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– AntonioOfVenice [S] 15 points 189 days ago +15 / -0

Never noticed what the title is for kotakuinaction2?

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– DresdenFirebomber 1 point 189 days ago +1 / -0

I notice it, but I proved it with several posts that this place is a cross between the Daily Stormer and a GOP pro-family think tank like the IFS.

You don't care about games any more than you care about men's rights. When things don't align with the GOP, they just get buried.

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– AntonioOfVenice [S] 18 points 189 days ago +18 / -0

You don't care about games any more than you care about men's rights.

Correct. GG is not about games, nor about men's rights, but about defeating social justice.

When things don't align with the GOP, they just get buried.

The GOP sucks.

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... continue reading thread?
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– censorthisss 15 points 189 days ago +15 / -0

When things don't align with the GOP, they just get buried.

Ban this delusional faggot already.

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– ModsAreAIDS 10 points 189 days ago +10 / -0

When things don't align with the GOP, they just get buried.

lol

I tear the GOP apart every single day here. If this is the goal, we sure suck at it.

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– voidposter 8 points 189 days ago +8 / -0

Bad bot.

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– Theacefospades 2 points 189 days ago +2 / -0

This is the closest to a good take you've ever had

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– AlfredicEnglishRules 2 points 189 days ago +2 / -0

So, I need to show up to an interview full German? Ok, how about Northern English?

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