Comments by "Tim Bucks" (@TimBitts649) on "Scott Galloway Shares the Uncomfortable Facts of DEI" video.
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What Scott Galloway's comment mean: I've thought for a long time, Democrats basically discriminate against white males, particularly white Christian males. Turns out, my instinct was right. And that's what DEI is about: a new form of racism, where the people who started America are actively discriminated against....white men. DEI is bigotry, the bigot disguising their bigotry, with moral pretense. Part of this happened because Democrats embraced feminism long ago. Along with some good stuff from feminism, came a whole lot of bad stuff arising from discriminating against men, while promoting women, over men.
Sometimes solutions are problematic and have unintended consequences that are not always good, often what no one wants....especially women. For instance:
Scott has videos where he talks about how in the past, universities were mostly male. I remember that: Almost no females around on campus, long ago. When? Around the time of, no birth control. Then, with women on birth control we opened the door to opportunity for women, we found a big surprise: women can often outcompete men at university. We thought till then, men could outcompete women always, no matter what. Turns out, that's not true.
Why is this an issue? It's not, for men, actually. It's a problem mostly for women, not men. How so? At Jordan Peterson's last teaching position, at University of Toronto, about 70% of students are women, about 30% are men. Who are the women going to marry, have kids with?
A lot of this pattern of lots of women in higher education is, women are good students. The problem is, when women graduate, they have huge student loans, they can't have families, they are too busy paying off those loans. So then the birth rate drops like a rock, as Peter Zeihan noted the other day. The American birth rate is at an historic low: As women get educated, they stop having kids. Also women are wired for top men. They don't like to be in relationships with men they have to support financially. But women are starting to outcompete men, economically. So then women look around hoping for a partner and the women say: where are all the good men? They are still here, ladies. You outcompeted them, you created your own shortage, which is a perceived shortage, not an actual shortage.
See: The Diary of a CEO "Why 80% of men are invisible to women"
Also it turns out, feminism is very good for the upper classes, but very bad for the lower classes. Why is that? Charles Murray was on to something when he wrote his book long ago: "Coming Apart" ....how the classes are coming apart, living in different realities, even marrying different people. The upper class men who mostly go to university tend to marry upper class women, who also went to university. This drives more wealth inequality in America, money tends to stick in the upper classes, less class mobility now. The upper middle class couple have kids, the girls go to university....then complain there are no good men around. It's mostly rich girls at university, like the Chinese Taiwan daughter of a hedge fund manager Scott talks about, who go to elite schools. There are very few low income people at university. It's a playground for the bright children of the wealthy. The bright children of the white middle class, get left behind.
We rigged the system to favor people who already have 2 parents, with both parents university educated and the parents have lots of money. Then we call their daughters "Oppressed" and let her into elite schools, while a hard working white Christian male has zero chance of getting in, even if his grades are excellent. Then at university, we teach rich white and non white girls, how horrible men are. So, we are culturally trapped in feminist misperceptions, we end up helping the daughters of rich Americans and rich immigrants. All the while the daughters of the middle class suffer, because they are doing less well due to in part, all the anti-male discrimination promoted by Democrats....which means the men they marry, aren't doing so well.
Same thing in the black community. Zuby was talking to Larry Elder the other day, of the various ways feminist Democrat policies end up really hurting black Americans....basically destroying their families. Thomas Sowell has lots to say, about that. Nothing intended there, all unintended bad problematic consequences of policies, where we think we are helping people, but end up creating bigger problems. Zuby would make a great guest.
Alan Dershowitz had something interesting to say on all this DEI stuff, yesterday his appearance on Triggernometry. Alan is over 80, remembers when universities had "Jewish quotas"....I remember that too. Universities were "Woke" long before woke. Then eventually they let in Jewish students, the kids thrived, became about a quarter of students in the Ivy Leagues. Then fast forward a few decades, DEI came in. The logic of DEI is: whoever is successful is a target. Their success must be, because they exploited people...the "oppressed/oppressor" narrative is basic to higher education now. It's the world view of the young, now that learning itself was corrupted by the political left.
Alan explains how Jewish people are successful, so they are natural targets of DEI. He says the number of Jewish students in the Ivy Leagues is plunging, how many parents are looking for alternative schools like in Florida for their kids, where there is less anti-Semitism allowed, thanks to the Governor. As Dave said the other day, whites are the next target for the Left, we are in their cross hairs. But as always the real nasty stuff currently happening is, DEI and far-left Democrats are going after Jewish Americans. "First they come for the Jews...." So true.
If Jews & Christians can stick together, we can win this fight.
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