Ep. 2336 - How White Men Became The Targets Of America’s Most Powerful Institutions
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What does the Compact Magazine report reveal about white men in the job market?
A huge piece in Compact Magazine exposes how white men were discriminated against in the job market from 2014 on, the wages of DEI, plus healthcare imbroglios for Republicans, and of course, a profile of Susie Wiles at Vanity Fair that's creating waves on the Hill First. The Daily Wire Plus Christmas sale, it's happening right this very instant. New memberships are 40% off. Gift memberships are 50% off. Daily Wire Plus is the only place you get ad-free, uncensored shows from the most trusted names in conservative media every single day. And your membership also includes unlimited access to our premium entertainment, including the upcoming seven-part epic, The Pendragon Cycle Rise of the Merlin, with early access to episodes one and two starting Christmas Day.
The Christmas sale is live right now. 40% off new memberships, 50% off gift memberships. Go to dailywire.com slash subscribe and join today. So one of the big questions that has plagued American politics for the last decade and a half is what the hell is going on? And in order to understand what the hell is going on, I think we need to understand the transformation that happened around the year Between 2012 and 2014, something radically changed in American politics. Now, some of that is the rise of social media. Obviously, this is something that the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt of NYU has discussed ad nauseum. It's the idea that because we're all addicted to our phones, because we are able to find our own little clicks of people on the Internet, and then...
Zoom around headlines, both true and untrue. This means that we have sort of poisoned our own brains. And there's a lot of truth to that. I mean, I've talked at length about how algorithms are feeding you information that may not be true and generally is going to confirm your preexisting biases. But there's something else that happened too. And that's a real world thing. That real world thing is the rise of DEI. So in 2012, which again, I still consider 2012 to be the most important election of my lifetime. The one that everybody forgets. That's the one that I think was really important. Why? Well, because in 2008, Barack Obama, America's first black president, was elected on the platform of unifying Americans around race.
And racial optimism in the country was at an all-time high by the polling data. And then in 2012, Barack Obama, who had been a very left-wing president, a very progressive president. Of course, he had pushed Obamacare through with the skin of his teeth, and he was unpopular. And so he decided that the best way to win reelection was not to broadcast a unifying message, but to divide Americans by race, and then to cobble together enough racial coalitions in order to win a victory. And he defeated Mitt Romney, the most milquetoast candidate in the history of American politics, in what was a fairly solid victory. And that seemed to change everything because by 2014, race relations in the United States were on the decline.
And they were on the decline because Barack Obama, who made a lot of promises to a lot of people, needed to fulfill those promises, particularly on issues of race. The claim that Barack Obama made with regard to, for example, Trayvon Martin, is that Trayvon could have been his son. That was a racial claim because what he was claiming, of course, is that any black person would have been subjected to the same treatment as Trayvon Martin, that circumstances did not matter. He said the same thing with regard to Ferguson, Missouri, where he claimed that nobody would make up the kinds of experiences that Michael Brown had undergone. And it turned out that in Ferguson, Missouri, Michael Brown's acolytes, people who are pseudo-witnesses, actually did, in fact, make up the story about Michael Brown claiming that he had raised his hands, hands up, don't shoot, and all of the rest.
And so race relations by 2014 were on a steep decline in the United States, and they have never recovered. And that is because so much of this attitude, this racially divisive attitude, was then baked into American politics.
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Chapters
5 chapters
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What does the Compact Magazine report reveal about white men in the job market?
0:00–9:05
2
How has DEI impacted hiring practices since 2014?
9:05–12:03
3
What significant changes occurred in race relations during Obama's presidency?
12:03–18:59
4
What are the implications of the decline of white men in elite institutions?
18:59–24:02
5
How do media and academia reflect shifts in diversity and inclusion?
24:02–59:20
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