Something extraordinary happened to millennial white men in America between 2014 and 2024

In elementary school, we laughed at the kid who didn’t have cable or a color tv. Little did we know, his based dad was laughing at us too

My exceptionally bright future son-in-law graduated with honors from college with an MIS degree. He graduated from high school with a 4.23 average. He had a job in management. After two years he'd been passed over for promotion by multiple black men and a woman, all who were hired six to eight months after him. His internal reviews were great. He was always the first in the door and the last to leave, but his HR department promoted women and minorities, not whites. He finally had enough and quit. It took him almost a year before he could get a second interview. The bias and agenda is real.

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He finally had enough and quit. It took him almost a year before he could get a second interview.

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for someone who sounds so smart, quitting a job without a new one lined up makes me think he is not as smart as you think he is...

I can't remember the last time I have seen a man in an HR department. The gatekeepers of who gets an interview are liberal cat ladies and minorities.

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for someone who sounds so smart, quitting a job without a new one lined up makes me think he is not as smart as you think he is...

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I'm certain, as easy as academic achievement came to him, the thought that he would be not be able to secure work within a relatively short period of time didn't register with him. It's not the same world as it was during the first Trump administration where, if you weren't working, you weren't trying.

Youth is wasted on the young. He's a bit wiser to the world now.

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My exceptionally bright future son-in-law graduated with honors from college with an MIS degree. He graduated from high school with a 4.23 average. He had a job in management. After two years he'd been passed over for promotion by multiple black men and a woman, all who were hired six to eight months after him. His internal reviews were great. He was always the first in the door and the last to leave, but his HR department promoted women and minorities, not whites. He finally had enough and quit. It took him almost a year before he could get a second interview. The bias and agenda is real.

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My SIL had a similar experience. 8 years in the Navy as an air traffic controller, Earned a college degree along the way. Left the Navy and tried to find employment as a civilian air traffic controller. Was told he could not be hired because he was white

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8 years in the Navy

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Don't let this get lost.

It was whites discriminating against other whites.

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That's pretty damning of gen x. I would have thought better of them than that.

Saw it play out in the TV industry in real time

It got bad in 2014 after Mike Brown and Freddie Gray. Accelerated in 2020. I leveraged my secret recordings of struggle sessions at the final TV job I worked at to negotiate a higher severance package when I was let go and replaced by an H1B

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Gen-X guys still run The New York Times Magazine, still hold senior positions across Hollywood, still dominate university departments.

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You might want to go a bit more micro on that.