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Daily Signal Podcast: Victor Davis Hanson: The Generation That Got Wiped Out: DEI’s War on White Men

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News, Politics

4.4651 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

DEI killed meritocracy—and white men in America have paid the price. Victor Davis Hanson breaks down a recent, controversial article from Compact Magazine, which examines how white males have been increasingly excluded from fields like entertainment, journalism, and academia over the past several decades. Hanson explores the effects of early affirmative action, post-George Floyd hiring […]

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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal.

0:51.7

There's been quite a controversial article by one Jacob Savage in the conservative

0:58.4

magazine Compact. In it, he describes the destruction of the whole generation career-wise

1:06.4

of white males, particularly in the entertainment industry, screenwriting, journalism, the humanities,

1:14.6

academia. And his thesis is tri-part. He says that traditionally white males had dominated

1:22.5

these fields as they did others, and that was a part of demography, after all, until about

1:29.2

1965 or 70, 90 percent of the country was so-called white.

1:34.9

But as immigration increased, and there was more emphasis on feminism, civil rights, the white

1:41.6

male hierarchy decided to help people who otherwise would not be encouraged

1:46.9

to apply to these marquee jobs.

1:49.1

And this was sort of a proto-affirmative action.

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