{"id":21151,"date":"2026-01-18T19:44:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21151"},"modified":"2026-01-18T19:44:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:44:49","slug":"was-there-a-woke-war-on-white-millennial-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21151","title":{"rendered":"Was There a Woke War on White Millennial Men?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;&#8221;In 2011, the year I moved to Los Angeles, white men&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1NdW2RQ49TsUzIQHxi2WbnQwskMyYsyH4\/view?usp=sharing&amp;ref=compactmag.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>were<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;48 percent of lower-level TV writers; by 2024, they&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1Ous3R-HcDWYj4wJ_rcsxE_H6ko6WmfvYvbWfvpZ_hUY\/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ref=compactmag.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>accounted<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;for just 11.9 percent.&nbsp;<em>The Atlantic<\/em>&#8216;s editorial staff went from 53 percent male and 89 percent white in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.theatlantic.com\/assets\/media\/files\/the-atlantic_diversity-and-inclusion-report-2020.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>2013<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;to 36 percent male and 66 percent white in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.theatlantic.com\/media\/files\/2024\/diversity_report_-_2024_final.pdf?ref=compactmag.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>2024<\/u><\/a>. White men fell from 39 percent of tenure-track positions in the humanities at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1fOe5Gs5VZiz9sTlXcIF3oE20TmjX_Zaj\/view?usp=sharing&amp;ref=compactmag.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Harvard<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;in 2014 to 18 percent in 2023.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/12\/19\/was-there-a-woke-war-on-white-millennial-men\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/12\/19\/was-there-a-woke-war-on-white-millennial-men<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8221;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. The Atlantic&#8217;s editorial staff went from 53 percent male and 89 percent white in 2013 to 36 percent male and 66 percent white in 2024. White men fell from 39 percent of tenure-track positions in the humanities at Harvard in 2014 to 18 percent in 2023.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/12\/19\/was-there-a-woke-war-on-white-millennial-men\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[94,421,271,295,513,369,2043,2275,642,1767,368],"class_list":["post-21151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-colleges","tag-gender","tag-jobs","tag-journalism","tag-journalists","tag-male","tag-men","tag-millennial","tag-race","tag-university","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21152,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21151\/revisions\/21152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}