Why I only help young White men

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Jacob Savage’s Compact article has gone bloody viral. In short, it is a paean to the generation of White men who were unfortunate enough to graduate between the late 2000s and today have been ruthlessly excluded from the creative industries (amongst others), backed up by both statistics and testimonies.

It is a great example of writing which articulates something everybody knows but has not actually been written down in a systematic way. That is not a criticism. My only critique of those who make the case for ‘Meritocracy’ in this narrow sense is that they do not appreciate how radical of a prospect genuine equality of opportunity for White men is.

Just take Nathan Cofnas’s calculation that genuine equality would be no black professors at Harvard. Are ‘right-wing’ black conservatives, all of whom have been given massive benefits by dint of their race, actually willing to reckon with this outcome? Do ‘right-wing’ women understand that their own livelihoods would disappear if the thumb was removed from the scales?

‘Meritocracy’ (referring to this equal opportunity and not the more expansive vision elucidated by the Dragon) would mean or require, in practice, the total reconstitution of society. It would not be a return to the 1990s - Savage’s article mostly dates this transformation to the early 2010s - it would be a return to the 1940s, before Harvard and other elite colleges began to impose quotas for blacks.

I am completely comfortable with making that change, but I suspect that many of those who unthinkingly advocate for gender/racial blindness are not cognisant of just how pernicious anti-White male discrimination has been for decades, and how transformative it would be to simply allow White men a level playing field.

Oddly enough, I saw Jacob Savage’s article on the same day that we received a novel submission from a non-white person. As far as I am aware - of course our writers are all anonymous - we have never, ever published an article that was not written by a White man.

The article was perfectly serviceable prose about an interesting topic and would otherwise be worthy of publication, however, my instinct was to reject it. Not because of outright racial prejudice, but a different elemental sentiment, one that I have never articulated, even internally, but one which I can now see has guided my actions and behaviour since becoming an adult.

That is, in plain English, that having grown up in a society which openly discriminates against White men, and having had this rubbed in my face since I was a child, I will never, ever, ever, help anybody out with their career or writing unless they are a White man. In fact, I can think of distinct occasions, when I have been on hiring panels or asked to help draft up CVs, where I have taken active steps to hinder the careers of non-whites and women.

If reading that causes you offence, you have not fully reckoned with how painful it is to live in a country which officially discriminates against you whilst degrading you. That is the experience of being a young White man in the 21^st century, and to even complain about it is to invite the arms of the British state to crush you.

I am not one for whingeing, generally, but no other demographic has faced this level of persecution since Catholics in the 19^thcentury. Windrushers probably did have a harder time in the 1950s getting room and board, or a job, but they did not face financial and social ruination for pointing out this fact. People did not make careers, as they do now out of ‘Equality, Diversity and Inclusion’, from introducing official discrimination policies against women or Pakistanis in the 1960s.

What’s more, the discrimination against me, and people who look like me, is an anti-civilisational defiance of logic. Our politicians are completely useless in a large part because of these biases. Media has effectively died. We are a society devoid of wit or art. Unless this rancid hatred is expunged we will cease to progress.

So I shall continue. What’s more, I invite readers to do the same. Take the J’accuse pledge. If you ever reach a position of authority or power, devote every part of yourself to advancing the careers of young White men. Silently, but unapologetically.

For thine is the Kingdom.