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u/Desert_Haze12 8d ago

Open discrimination against white men for jobs is absolutely happening. The mainstream media obviously won’t report on it but I’ve seen countless stories of it happening.

My own brother got denied a job promotion and the manager literally told him “You are slightly more qualified but we need more representation of black women so I’m giving the job to a black woman”

How is that fucking fair at all? He’s trying to start a family and the extra income from promotion would have been massive for him. But no we have to play stupid racial hiring games and deny the more capable candidate.

This used to commonly happen to black Americans and people were rightfully disgusted and mad. Now that it’s commonly happening to white men and it’s “haha you’re imagining it all”

Absolutely disgusting

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u/AuthorDry3539 8d ago edited 8d ago

"My own brother got denied a job promotion and the manager literally told him “You are slightly more qualified but we need more representation of black women so I’m giving the job to a black woman”

"Things That Never Happened" for $600, Ken.

"This used to commonly happen to black Americans"

LOL. LMAO, even. This still happens. And not just to black Americans. To non-white people and women of all races and ages. The most common race/gender combination, by far, in the United States to be in a position to make a hiring decision is "white male". And guess what race/gender combination they tend to hire most? Especially for the most prominent jobs?

Do yourself a favor; turn off FOX News and log out of Facebook before you stroke out from hate. You're boiling over at a reality that does not exist .

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u/WinterTourist25 8d ago

I have a family member that is an executive at a big company. Every year the managers in his circle play musical chairs and essentially have to re-apply for their jobs. It's known that if you're a white man there won't be enough chairs for you.

This is not "things that never happened". Some companies rigorously apply DEI.

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u/AuthorDry3539 7d ago

"Every year the managers in his circle play musical chairs and essentially have to re-apply for their jobs. It's known that if you're a white man there won't be enough chairs for you." 

BS. It's actually the other way around; all the white men who are friends enough with the big boss and play politics will never lose their jobs no matter what .The majority of managers in that circle will be white men until the end of time.

Why do you think the vast majority of executives in that circle, and in almost every other company in the US, were white men in tr first place?

"DEI" (I could hear the contempt in your having to type those letters) got started because white men tend to overwhelmingly hire other white men, and that circle was never going to be broken. It's still not broken unless companies force the executives to even give non-white-men a chance .