In Compact Magazine’s viral article "The Lost Generation," Jacob Savage detailed how white Millennial men were excluded from prestigious institutions in Hollywood, academia, and publishing during the 2010s woke era that used DEI to hire women and POC. This discriminatory practice was a shame—and a crime. But there was a silver lining to it all, in that it woke up those white Millennial men politically, and opened up new avenues of opportunity outside of the system, where those men had more creative, intellectual, and political freedom.
Prestige institutions stopped hiring the best men at precisely the same time that the internet provided the ability for the best men to succeed without those institutions. You don't need a book agent when you can self-publish on Amazon. You don't need to be a history professor at a university when you can reach more people through a podcast. You don't need Hollywood when you can film videos with an iPhone and start a YouTube channel. Those institutions were eventually going to become obsolete due to technology anyway; DEI merely accelerated their decline.
It still wasn't right what the institutions did by barring young white men. While many young white men succeeded on their own regardless, their success likely could have been aided by those institutions. There were many young white men who would have thrived with institutional support but lacked the entrepreneurial spirit and were never able to succeed on their own. Many more gave up after being gaslit by repeated rejections into thinking they were talentless, when really they were just white men. While there were some independent winners, it was a lost generation indeed.
But there will be a reckoning...
Most white Millennial men didn't quite understand what was happening at the time, at least not to the extent that it was. Millennials came of age in the 1990s and early 2000s and were default liberals. This was partially due to opposing George W. Bush and his disastrous wars in the Middle East. But more so because of the media we were raised on: music, television, and movies that all promoted the general liberal progressive worldview. So when the woke movement began in the 2010s, denouncing racism, sexism, and toxic masculinity, most white male Millennials were happy to support the movement—because we were not racist or sexist. Therefore the woke reckoning wouldn't affect us—just the racist sexist old white men. Except it didn't. The old white men mostly kept their jobs as they hired young women and POC. It was just the young white men, the liberal Millennials, who were left out. Some white millennial men made it through the "lost generation." They weren't the most talented, however; they were the most libtarded.
The Zoomers have had it even worse and for longer. It is now impossible for any young white man not to see the injustices that have been done to them in the name of DEI (unless they are one of those libtarded white men allowed into the system). Those white men who didn't make it but should have are smart, capable, and angry. They are more competent than those in power and will do everything they can to destroy those who deprived them. There has been a mass shift politically for white Millennial and Zoomer men to the right, at least among those who were unfairly rejected by the system. They discovered that for the woke movement, "racism" meant being white, "sexism" meant being male, and "toxic masculinity" meant being straight. So young white men rejected the woke movement along with much of the liberal worldview they once took for granted.
If our woke overlords were smart and competent (which is impossible, as smart and competent is antithetical to woke), they would have hired many more white men to placate us and become complacent in the liberal system. By banishing us into exile, we coalesced on the internet, reading blogs like Unqualified Reservations, listening to uncensored podcasts that critiqued the system, and memeing/planning on Twitter/X. A dissident army grew in the independent platforms online. By rejecting us from the system, they planted the seeds for their own destruction.
Every generation of young men faces unique struggles. Often in the past, that was war. Most Millennials never faced combat; instead DEI was our "war." We suffered many casualties to opioids, weed, and porn. But the future is bright. We now realize we are in a war and understand our opposition. We will not fight back with violence—they would like that, so they could use the hammer of the system to squash us. Rather, we will outsmart them through the system then dismantle the system itself. We will win because we are smarter and more competent. In the long run, they stand no chance.