Earlier this month, Compact Magazine published “The Lost Generation,” written by Jacob Savage, a man who spent fifteen years trying to build a career in screenwriting and finally gave up. He claims he was the victim of active discrimination as a white male, and backs it up with facts:
“In 2011, the year I moved to Los Angeles, white men were 48 percent of lower-level TV writers; by 2024, they accounted for just 11.9 percent… White men fell from 39 percent of tenure-track positions in the humanities at Harvard in 2014 to 18 percent in 2023… In 2024, The Atlantic announced that three-quarters of editorial hires in the past year had been women and 69 percent people of color… In 2018, The New York Times replaced its summer internship with a year-long fellowship. Just 10 percent of the 220 fellows have been white men… Since 2018, only 14.6 percent of tenure-track assistant professors hired at Yale have been white American men. In the humanities, that number was just six out of 76 (7.9 percent)… Today, just one in ten millennial programmers at Sundance is a straight white man…”
