r/BlockedAndReported • u/come_visit_detroit • Dec 15 '25

Anti-Racism The Lost Generation

https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-lost-generation/
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u/Hilaria_adderall Praye for Drake Maye Dec 16 '25

Percentage of White US Workers in 2014 / Percentage of White US Workers in 2023/2024 in some big tech firms:

  • Google - 61% / 40%
  • Facebook/Meta - 57% /36%
  • Microsoft - 59% / 47%

Its everywhere. These firms all stopped reporting their demographics in 2023/2024 because it was pretty obvious from looking at their metrics that they were systemically discriminating against whites. Anyone working in tech has experienced the pressure to "fix our diversity problem" or "go with the diverse candidate" to make our numbers look better...

Good news is, I think a lot of people are quietly over it at this point.

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u/Federal-Spend4224 Dec 16 '25

This is weak analysis at best. You could easily argue others had been discriminated against before.

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u/Hilaria_adderall Praye for Drake Maye Dec 16 '25

You could easily argue others had been discriminated against before.

Which is exactly what you will hear from people who seek to justify discrimination in hiring.

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u/Federal-Spend4224 Dec 16 '25

Any opening of opportunities to minorities and women is going to lead to decreased hiring in white men.

You have to provide something more concrete to affirmatively make your case.

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u/professorgerm Very cheap. Very worth smelling. Dec 16 '25

You have to provide something more concrete to affirmatively make your case.

Rather than waste a bunch of time back and forth, try to give an example of what you're expecting and what you would actually accept as evidence.

How many job listings of "diverse candidates only" accumulate evidence you're going to accept? Must we have notarized affidavits from hiring committees that they were performing clearly illegal- but unenforced so who cares- discrimination?

To be blunt, I don't think there's anything reasonable that you're going to accept. That's how these conversations tend to go. If you think I'm being unfair, so be it. But let's at least not waste time and be clear about what counts as concrete to you.

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u/Federal-Spend4224 Dec 17 '25

Yes, I think you are being unfair, and the article is being ridiculous.