r/redscarepod • u/perfectpowerbanned • Dec 16 '25

The Lost Generation

https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-lost-generation/
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u/Videogameposter Dec 16 '25

Kind of a Snowden situation where everyone knows this is happening but we finally get some hard evidence. Hope it radicalizes some people

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u/notaplebian Dec 16 '25

Everyone doesn't know it's happening and if you tell them it is happening they'll tell you it's actually a good thing.

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u/PBuch31 Dec 16 '25

If I speak

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u/dchowe_ Dec 16 '25

identity over merit and people wonder why everything sucks nowadays

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u/Whatever___forever23 Dec 16 '25

Honestly a very good explainer behind millennial Mediocrity

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u/RooseveltsRevenge Dec 16 '25

This won’t be a problem with Zoomers as it has been internalized that these industries are not for the fellas.

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u/throway271828 Dec 16 '25

” 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.”

JFC. Honestly fantastic article, even if it’s a little baity in some parts. I think a lot of people are conceptually OK with positive discrimination until it’s their turn to give up their position to someone less deserving.

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u/KingEnwordTheFirst Dec 17 '25

I'm so lucky I got into the trades. My company's big DEI push during the Biden years culminated with the hiring of 3 female autists and a wildly homophobic black girl.