DEI caused the great discrimination, which led to the enshitification of everything. By John Carter.
In my experience (and my mother was one of Australia’s leading feminists, so I met not a few), many feminists of the 1970s and 80s were bright women married to less-bright men. These women became contemptuous of men.
The power suit-clad feminists who body-checked their padded shoulder into C-suites and academic departments in the 1970s flattered themselves that they were subduing sexist male chauvinism by outdoing the boys at their own game and forcing the patriarchy to acknowledge their natural female excellence.
Growing up I would often hear professional women say things like “as a woman, to get half as far as a man, you have to be twice as good and work twice as hard.” The implication of this was that women were just overall better than men, because the old boy’s club held the fairer sex to a higher standard than it did the good old boys.
Of course this was almost never true, these women were overwhelmingly the beneficiaries of affirmative action programs motivated by anti-discrimination legislation that opened up any corporation that didn’t put a sufficient number females on the payroll to ruinous lawsuits. Moreover, a fair fraction of them were really being recruited as decorative additions to the secretarial harems of upper management. Nevertheless it helped lay the foundation for the Future Is Female boosterism that stole the future from a generation of young men. …
Affirmative action inevitably leads to discrimination — against white men, such as the author, John Carter:
I … imagined that this simply meant that I had to perform to a higher standard, that if I was good enough, the excellence of my work would shatter the institutional barriers and force someone to employ me. It took me several long and agonizing years to realize that this just wasn’t true. …
The priestesses of the present gynocracy hold themselves to no such standard [of fairness or merit]. They don’t care about your promise or your performance, at all. If anything, performing well is a strike against you, because it threatens them. Nothing makes them seethe more than being outperformed by men. They champion mediocrity as much to punish as to promote. …
The promises to white men were broken:
Young white men had been raised to expect meritocracy. They’d also been raised to be racial and sexual egalitarians. … We’d [rectify past injustices] by carefully eliminating every potential source of racial or sexual bias, eliminating all the unfair barriers to advancement within society, in particular although not certainly not exclusively via university admissions and institutional hiring. That was the original official line on DEI: that it wasn’t about excluding white men, heaven forbid, no, it was simply about including everyone else, widening the talent pool so that we could ensure both the fairest possible system of advancement, and that the best possible candidates were given access to opportunity.
In practice, we were told, this wouldn’t be a quota system: everything would still be meritocratic, but if it came down to a coin flip between two equally qualified candidates, one of whom was a white man and the other of whom was not, the not would win. Fair enough, the young white men thought at first: we’ll all compete on a level playing field, in fact we’ll even accept a bit of a handicap in the interests of correcting historical injustices, and may the best human win.
But the DEI commissars had absolutely no interest in a level playing field.
That the playing field wasn’t already as level as it could be was, in fact, one of their most infamous lies. The arena has always been level: physics plays no favourites in the eternal struggle for survival and mastery. If some always end up on top — certain individuals, certain families, certain nations, certain races–– this is invariably due to their own innate advantages over their competitors. An interesting example of this was provided by the Russian revolution. The Bolsheviks cast down the old Czarist aristocracy, stripping them of land, wealth, and status, and then discriminated against them in every way possible; a century later, their descendants had clawed their way back to power and prominence. The only possible conclusion from this is that the Russian aristocrats were, at least to some degree, aristos — the best, the noblest — in some sense that went beyond inherited estates.
The young white men did not think of themselves as aristocrats with a blood right to a certain position in life, but as contestants in a fair competition, who would rise or fall on their own merits and by their own efforts. They then abruptly found themselves competing in a system in which it was simply impossible for them to rise, but which also lied to them about the impassable barrier that had been placed in their way.…
They tried harder the next time. And then when that didn’t work they redoubled their efforts, and then doubled them again. But nothing could break through a wall that was supremely indifferent to any demonstration of ability or accomplishment. …
Uh! No complaining allowed:
If you noticed the unfairness, you were told that this was ridiculous, that as a white man you were automatically and massively privileged, that it was impossible to discriminate against you because of this, and that in addition to being a bigoted racist you were also quite clearly mediocre, a bitter little man filled with envy for the winners in life, the brilliant beautiful black women who had obviously outcompeted you because they were just so much smarter, so much more dedicated, and so much better because after all they had succeeded in spite of the deck being stacked against them whereas you had failed despite having been born with every unearned advantage in the world.
An entire generation had their future ripped from their hands, and were then told that it was their fault, their inadequacy. They were gaslit that there was no systemic discrimination against them, that their failure to launch was purely due to their individual failings … while at the same time being told that those who were so clearly the beneficiaries of a heavy thumb on the scale were the victims of discrimination …
To even hint that you thought that you were being treated unfairly as a white male was to cast one’s lot in with one of the bad people, the hate-filled reactionary KKK Alt-Right MAGA Nazis. … Complaining made you a bad person. Not only that, but it made you look weak, it felt like whining, like sour groups, like poor sportsmanship. No one likes a sore loser, you know. The world doesn’t owe you anything, stop being so privileged, so entitled, you didn’t build that you know. It’s their turn now. …
Many white men succumbed to despair:
Alcoholism, opiate abuse, video games, porn. The black dog of depression ate their hearts. They abandoned their ambitions, and retreated from a world that had no place for them. Hundreds of thousands were lost to suicide. White men have had the highest suicide rate by far for the entirety of the 21st century: they’re around one third of the US population, but account for over 2/3 of an-heroes.
I had Grok run the numbers. Based on CDC data, the AI estimates around 400,000 excess white male deaths via suicide amongst white men since 2010, as compared to what would be expected from the average across other groups. …
Now what? Read the link to find out.
We should all be furious. What has been done to us is a crime of the most monumental proportions, not only against young white men, but against our entire civilization. …
But back to the main thread.
Older white men, who got jobs before the great discrimination:
Older men … knew that to speak out against DEI was career suicide: they’d be forced out immediately if they were anything less than enthusiastic. Plenty of examples were made in the years leading up to the Great Awokening:
- Larry Summers being forced to step down as president of Harvard for suggesting that the under-representation of women in physics was consistent with the greater male variability hypothesis;
- James Watson, the co-discoverer of DNA, being forced out as the director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory for publicly suggesting that there might be something to racial differences in IQ;
- Matt Taylor, lead scientist of the Rosetta mission to the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, being driven to tears by an Internet mob because he wore a loud shirt featuring prints of hot women at the press conference celebrating the first unmanned landing on a comet.
There was no degree of status or power that could protect you. That is not to excuse their cowardly complicity, of course; merely to put it in context. …
At the same time, older white men were also amongst the silent victims of this regime. The overwhelming majority of old white men are not in any particular position of authority, and those who found themselves between jobs in the 2020s found work particularly hard to come by. If you’re an engineer in your 50s or 60s, good luck getting past HR. If you have a position, good luck getting promoted. Or for that matter, keeping it. By the way, we just hired Sunpreet and his fifty cousins for ten rupees a day, they’ll be replacing you in a month, and if you want to get your severance package we’ll ask that you train them to do your job and sign this non-disclosure agreement.
DEI wrecked institutions because the jobs were given to less competent people instead:
DEI infected and ruined every single institution.
Indeed, this in itself is a large source of the fury that burns in the hearts of those young white men. …
The young white men were brought up to love and respect the institutions. They wanted to find their places within them, to be sure, but they also wanted to do their part to build, maintain, and improve them. To have the gate repeatedly slammed in your face is insult enough. To then see the glorious edifice that your forebears spent several centuries erecting and perfecting crumble under the weight of the incompetence of those admitted in your place adds unbearable injury to insult.
DEI led to the great enshitification:
Institutional trust has collapsed, in large part entirely because of DEI. It has turned everything to shit. Scholarship is shit. Movies are shit. Television shows are shit. Journalism is shit. Music is shit. Software is shit. Hospitals are shit. Industrial engineering is shit. Everywhere one looks, everything is in a state of disintegration, in some cases literally: bridges falling down, airplanes plummeting out of the sky. DEI has led to a competence crisis, and as a result our complex systems are collapsing.
And the young white men, who understand better than anyone why this is happening, and are the single group best suited to reversing it, indeed the only group who can reverse it, are forcibly held on the sidelines, watching helplessly as their civilization falls apart.
The enshittification of everything cannot be emphasized enough. It is the single most damning, delegitimizing aspect of the DEI kakistocracy.
The people controlling the institutions are pretenders raised above their stations, working far beyond their natural abilities. They are midwits proclaiming themselves geniuses, mediocrities putting on the affectation of excellence, peasants LARPing as nobility.
They are liars in every way, not only in that they lie about COVID or crime statistics or the effects of immigration or the motivations behind their foreign policy or the rate of inflation or whatever else, although of course they lie about that all the time; their most fundamental lie is that they present themselves as something they are not, as being worthy of the offices they hold. That they are unworthy is demonstrated by the consequences of their rule, which have been disastrous. They have brought about a cultural dark age.
It all makes sense if you view the underlying genetics as giving white men (and especially Jewish white men) an advantage in economic, political, and intellectual competition. Those without such fortunate genes are using their numbers to retard, cancel or even kill their more gifted competitors, even at the expense of the well-being of the whole tribe. Which pretty much sums up the western and global politics of the last 50 years.
