Jacob Savage discusses how journalism, academia, script-writing, and other fields have become overwhelmingly non-white, and non-male. Around 30% of America is white men- and yet, in many spaces, they have become the underrepresented class. A few notable statistics worth calling attention to:
- White men dropped from 31.2 percent of law school matriculants in 2016 to 25.7 percent in 2024.
- In 2014, white men were 31 percent of American medical students. By 2025, they were just 20.5 percent
- At Google, white men went from nearly half the workforce in 2014 to less than a third by 2024
This article is full of personal stories and examples about the impacts of this, and how it has driven a generation of talented white guys to embrace fields and spaces that are at least apathetic about DEI if not actively hostile (crypto, Joe Rogan, Musk, so on and so forth). A particular salient quote in this article stands out to me:
“What troubles me is that a lot of thriving white millennial men have had to follow the Josh Hawley path, where you have to leave liberal America,” an old friend, the father of two biracial children, told me. “I don't want to do that. Liberal America is my home. But if everyone says, this is not the place for you, what are you supposed to do?”
Liberal America decided they didn't want white guys anymore. We became boring. Overrepresented. Stale. And if we ever expressed concern about not being given a fair chance because of our race and gender, we were told it was because we were too mediocre to belong anyways.
The impacts this has had on the American Democratic party are salient and worth discussing in a forum that is seeking to understand the decline of liberal appeal in this modern era.
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Someone start the removal countdown lmao