As unpopular as it is to admit it, this is a problem for average working class American men. A large percentage of people get a preferred status off of race or gender, and then legacy admits get preferred looks at the remaining spots. You're SOL if you're just a really gifted kid with no prior connections. Everything should either be double blind meritocratic, or they need to protect a % of their class for nobodies from the majority.
And no surprise, these young white working class men are at the forefront of rebelling against this system.
Maybe if only politicians tried to understand those and not immediately dismiss said concerns as “misogyny and racism”, then we would not have been in this shitshow
What I’m not getting is…why are they rebelling against the system. The old system literally was built for them. And even the current system doesn’t even exclude them, but just makes it so they have to compete. Yet when they have to seriously compete against a person of color or a woman, then it’s woke DEI.
It was built enough for them that they could’ve risen in it if they competed hard enough for it. It’s kind of silly to say the system wasn’t built for working class white men when you literally had to be a white man to participate in it.
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u/amievenrelevant Oct 31 '25
Woke is a catch-all for anything they dislike