Screencap of YouTube video.
You may know Chris Rufo from his media appearances or for the work he has done with Ron DeSantis and the Trump administration, particularly in the area of education.
Rufo is a strong opponent of DEI policies and in a recent video for The Blaze, he talked about a viral essay on the topic called The Lost Generation.
It was written by a young man who was basically frozen out of the entertainment industry, even though he had ‘paid his dues’ for the simple fact that he is white.
Here is an excerpt from the piece by Jacob Savage which appeared in Compact Magazine:
In industry after industry, gatekeepers promised extra consideration to anyone who wasn’t a white man—and then provided just that. “With every announcement of promotions, there was a desire to put extra emphasis on gender [or race],” a former management consultant recalled. “And when you don’t fall into those groups, that message gets louder and louder, and gains more and more emphasis. 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.”
As the Trump Administration takes a chainsaw to the diversity, equity, and inclusion apparatus, there’s a tendency to portray DEI as a series of well-meaning but ineffectual HR modules. “Undoubtedly, there has been ham-fisted DEI programming that is intrusive or even alienating,” explained Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor in The New Yorker. “But, for the most part, it is a relatively benign practice meant to increase diversity, while also sending a message that workplaces should be fair and open to everyone.”
This may be how Boomer and Gen-X white men experienced DEI. But for white male millennials, DEI wasn’t a gentle rebalancing—it was a profound shift in how power and prestige were distributed. Yet practically none of the thousands of articles and think-pieces about diversity have considered the issue by cohort.
This isn’t a story about all white men. It’s a story about white male millennials in professional America, about those who stayed, and who (mostly) stayed quiet. The same identity, a decade apart, meant entirely different professional fates. 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.
Watch Rufo’s analysis below:
DEI policies are anti-civil rights. This is what the left refuses to understand and it’s why the Trump administration is working so hard to eradicate them.
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