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Jacob Savage / Compact: "The Lost Generation" (on the dispossession of young white men in the US) (www.compactmag.com)
posted 204 days ago by AntonioOfVenice 204 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 204 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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– DresdenFirebomber 3 points 204 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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– Theacefospades 2 points 204 days ago +2 / -0

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

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