The woke era was real in America, and we all know who it came after the hardest.
Yes, this report is an important reminder of what happens when you single out a group of people (cis white males) and pretend the whole time like you're simply propping up "minorities" to hide the fact that you're singling out white men and bringing them down.
Let's see what Compact has to say:
In 2011, the year I moved to Los Angeles, white men were 48 percent of lower-level TV writers; by 2024, they accounted for just 11.9 percent. The Atlantic's editorial staff went from 53 percent male and 89 percent white in 2013 to 36 percent male and 66 percent white in 2024. White men fell from 39 percent of tenure-track positions in the humanities at Harvard in 2014 to 18 percent in 2023.
In retrospect, 2014 was the hinge, the year DEI became institutionalized across American life.
In industry after industry, gatekeepers promised extra consideration to anyone who wasn't a white man — and then provided just that.
It was a funny joke at the time that "white men have it bad" and "it's a tough time to be a straight white male in America," but it turns out those jokes were funny because they were true.
We all remember what happened: The Left came pushing with this diversity stuff, leading to companies, especially in the media world looking to hire more minorities to diversify their staff. This ended up leaving cis white males out to dry due to the fact that they were not, in any way, a "minority." White men began to believe they were being passed up for employment opportunities. They were.
2020 and the death of George Floyd made this diversity-hire culture even more pronounced.
In 2021, new hires at Condé Nast were just 25 percent male and 49 percent white; at the California Times, parent company of The Los Angeles Times and The San Diego Union-Tribune, they were just 39 percent male and 31 percent white. That year ProPublica hired 66 percent women and 58 percent people of color; at NPR, 78 percent of new hires were people of color.
'For a typical job we'd get a couple hundred applications, probably at least 80 from white guys,' the hiring editor recalled. 'It was a given that we weren't gonna hire the best person… It was jarring how we would talk about excluding white guys.' The pipeline hadn't changed much — white men were still nearly half the applicants — but they were now filling closer to 10 percent of open positions.
The Atlantic was a great example of how crazy companies can get with this diversity-hire nonsense. Look at this:
With or without quotas, The Atlantic succeeded in hiring fewer of these white males. Since 2020, nearly two-thirds of The Atlantic's hires have been women, along with nearly 50 percent people of color. In 2024, The Atlantic announced that three-quarters of editorial hires in the past year had been women and 69 percent people of color.
This despite Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg admitting in the past that, "It's really, really hard to write a 10,000-word cover story ... There are not a lot of journalists in America who can do it. The journalists in America who do it are almost exclusively white males."
More stats from the report:
At the very bottom of the ladder, the picture is little different. Since 2020, only 7.7 percent of Los Angeles Times interns have been white men. Between 2018 and 2024, of the roughly 30 summer interns each year at The Washington Post, just two or three were white men (in 2025, coincident with certain political shifts, the Post's intern class had seven white guys — numbers not seen since way back in 2014). In 2018 The New York Times replaced its summer internship with a year-long fellowship. Just 10 percent of the nearly 220 fellows have been white men.
Other pipelines dried up as well. The alt-weeklies that gave misfit young men their start have shed them entirely. There are no white men on the editorial staff of the Seattle Stranger or on the staff of Indy Week. As late as 2017, there were six white men atop the masthead for the Portland Mercury. By 2024, there was just one: the Boomer editor-in-chief.
After witnessing this change, many white men just gave up on working in media. And with stats like these, it was only a matter of time before the nudge got them to leave.
In less than a decade, the entire face of the industry changed. The New York Times newsroom has gone from 57 percent male and 78 percent white in 2015 to 46 percent male and 66 percent white in 2024. Condé Nast today is just 35 percent male and 60 percent white. BuzzFeed, a media operation that had been 52 percent male and 75 percent white in 2014, was just 36 percent male and 52 percent white by 2023.
But the one place where this change was most evident was Vox.
Back in 2013, when Ezra Klein came under fire for his start-up's lack of diversity, Vox Media was 82 percent male and 88 percent white. By 2022 the company was just 37 percent male and 59 percent white, and by 2025 leadership was 73 percent female.
As you can see, cis white men had been progressively squeezed out of these organizations. And had woke not died, who knows how many more would've been removed.
The same phenomenon is seen in academia:
White men may still be 55 percent of Harvard's Arts & Sciences faculty (down from 63 percent a decade ago), but this is a legacy of Boomer and Gen-X employment patterns. For tenure-track positions — the pipeline for future faculty — white men have gone from 49 percent in 2014 to 27 percent in 2024 (in the humanities, they've gone from 39 percent to 21 percent).
The pipeline and the cohorts haven't changed much — newly-minted humanities Ph.Ds have been evenly split between men and women for over a decade now, and white men outnumber other groups in most applicant pools — but who was getting hired certainly did. At Berkeley, white men were 48.2 percent of faculty applicants in the Physical Sciences — but just 26 percent of hires for assistant professor positions. Since 2018, only 14.6 percent of tenure-track assistant professors hired at Yale have been white American men. In the humanities, that number was just six out of 76 (7.9 percent).
They're not leaving white men out of the interviews; they're just not hiring them.
Unless they are foreigners.
Wokies even took on cluster hiring, but in a woke way:
'The way you try to demographically diversify without making it explicit is searching in areas where the areas are strongly correlated with [gender or] ethnicity,' an Ivy League professor explained to me. A cluster hire in Latinx studies will gain you several Latinx faculty. A professor of transgender studies will in all likelihood not be a straight cis man. And a white male assistant professor of black sexualities is closer to an SNL sketch than to any lived reality in 2024.
Brown University was on fire when it came to destroying the dreams of cis white male academics:
In 2022, there were 728 applicants to tenure-track jobs in the humanities at Brown, 55 percent of whom were men. At every stage of the process the male share was whittled down. The long list was 48 percent male, the short list 42 percent. Only 34 percent of candidates who made it to the interview round were male — and only 29 percent of the jobs were ultimately offered to men. A similar dynamic played out in the social sciences: 54 percent of the 722 applicants were men; 44 percent of the shortlist was male, and just 32 percent of job offers were tendered to men; in the physical sciences, women were 23 percent of applicants, but received 42 percent of job offers.
...
Of the men who managed to pass through Brown's gender gauntlet, almost none are white. Since 2022, Brown has hired forty-five tenure track professors in the humanities and social sciences. Just three were white American men (6.7 percent).
California, as usual, did the woke stuff best.
At Berkeley, as recently as 2015, white male hires were 52.7 percent of new tenure-track faculty; in 2023, they were 21.5 percent. UC Irvine has hired 64 tenure-track assistant professors in the humanities and social sciences since 2020. Just three (4.7 percent) are white men. Of the 59 Assistant Professors in Arts, Humanities and Social Science appointed at UC Santa Cruz between 2020-2024, only two were white men (3 percent).
Next, the article looks at Hollywood.
In 2011, when he (and I) moved to California, white men were around 60 percent of TV writers; by 2025, according to the WGA's own diversity statistics, they accounted for just 11.9 percent of lower-level writers; women of color made up 34.6 percent. White men directed 69 percent of TV episodes in 2014, and just 34 percent by 2021. But that remaining third went overwhelmingly to established names, leaving little space for younger white men. Since 2021, 11 directors under 40 have been nominated for Emmys. None have been white men.
Essentially:
And we all know the anti-white woke came for everything else too.
The shift in medicine has been even more dramatic. In 2014, white men were 31 percent of American medical students. By 2025, they were just 20.5 percent — a ten-percentage-point drop in barely over a decade. ‘At every step there's some form of selection,' a millennial oncologist told me. ‘Medical school admissions, residency programs, chief resident positions, fellowships — each stage tilts away from white men or white-adjacent men… The white guy is now the token.
Nor was tech much of a refuge. At Google, white men went from nearly half the workforce in 2014 to less than a third by 2024 — a 34 percent decline. In 2014, at Amazon, entry-level ‘professionals' — college graduates just starting out — were 42.3 percent white male. These were the employees who, if they'd advanced normally over the next decade, would be the mid-level managers of today. But mid-level Amazon managers fell from 55.8 percent white male in 2014 to just 33.8 percent in 2024 — a decline of nearly 40 percent.
So there you have it: White men, especially millennials, are a seemingly lost generation, discriminated against actively for their sex and skin color.
Do you understand why young men are angry yet?
P.S. Now check out our latest video 👇
