The Auron MacIntyre Show - September 03, 2026


We Need Lawfare for White Men ｜ 9⧸3⧸26


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8 minutes

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1,153

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77

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2

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Transcript

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00:00:00.000 For decades, American hiring and admissions have been distorted by a legal and bureaucratic
00:00:04.700 regime that promised equal treatment while repeatedly rewarding institutions for sorting
00:00:09.580 people by race and sex. The Civil Rights Act itself doesn't explicitly exclude white men,
00:00:15.980 of course. Title VII protects employees from discrimination because of their race and sex,
00:00:21.020 regardless of which race or sex they happen to be. But affirmative action rules, consent decrees,
00:00:26.980 diversity mandates contracting preferences and institutional risk management created
00:00:32.820 by the civil rights act spawned by that document those all create powerful incentives to treat
00:00:39.900 demographic categories differently incentives shape behavior universities fortune 500 companies
00:00:46.640 government agencies and non-profits learn to fear discrimination claims bad publicity
00:00:52.180 activist campaigns, and regulatory scrutiny. Long before wokeness became a corporate religion,
00:00:59.040 lawyers and compliance departments were already teaching institutions to think in terms of
00:01:04.220 protected groups, disparate impact, representation targets, and litigation exposure. The practical
00:01:11.640 question was never simply who had rights on paper, it's whose complaints institutions expected to
00:01:16.680 consequences. For years, conservative media documented the resulting discrimination against
00:01:22.500 white men. DEI programs openly advertised preferences. Scholarships excluded applicants
00:01:28.260 by race or sex. Employers sometimes boasted about hiring goals that would have been scandalous if
00:01:34.240 preferred and disfavored groups were reversed. Yet a nasty and stupid trend has emerged on the 1.00
00:01:40.560 right. The same people who spent decades describing the system now mock young white men who notice 1.00
00:01:46.360 its effects. They call them losers. They accuse them of victimhood. They insist that any man who 0.99
00:01:52.640 works hard enough can simply transcend a system conservatives themselves spent years condemning
00:01:58.260 and making a good living doing so, by the way. That is politically and morally incoherent.
00:02:04.560 After Donald Trump's compelling victory in 2024, Democrats discovered that they had a serious
00:02:10.760 problem with male voters, especially white men. It turns out that a political coalition saturated
00:02:16.600 with rhetoric about whiteness, male privilege, and toxic masculinity will eventually alienate
00:02:22.680 some of the people being described as social pathologies. Progressives produced endless
00:02:28.040 postmortems about podcasts, masculinity, and how Democrats might win back young men.
00:02:34.100 Republicans should have recognized this opening immediately. The Trump administration deserves
00:02:38.740 credit for taking aggressive action against DEI. But much of the GOP still seems embarrassed by
00:02:44.480 the idea of representing white men as a constituency with legitimate interests. This is bizarre. A party
00:02:50.900 that promises equal protection should have no difficulty saying that discrimination against 0.56
00:02:55.560 white men is wrong for exactly the same reason discrimination against anyone else is wrong.
00:03:00.680 The political failure is glaring because young white men are not asking for a patronage machine.
00:03:06.620 Most of them want the same thing politicians promise everyone else.
00:03:10.400 Decent work, affordable housing, marriage, children, and the confidence that effort will be rewarded rather than filtered through a demographic spreadsheet.
00:03:19.000 Conservatives who spent years explaining how DEI distorts institutions can't suddenly sneer at those consequences when the victims are inconvenient.
00:03:28.160 If the system has been biased, fix it.
00:03:30.860 If the law promises equal treatment, then enforce it.
00:03:33.700 And if Republicans refuse to defend a constituency that's been increasingly voting for them
00:03:38.520 for years, they should not be surprised when those voters conclude that the party likes
00:03:43.020 their ballots more than it likes them.
00:03:45.540 A coalition can't survive forever on gratitude for being less hostile than the other side.
00:03:50.760 I mean, come on.
00:03:52.620 The Supreme Court has already laid the legal framework for this.
00:03:55.640 We don't have to guess. 0.67
00:03:57.080 In Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the Supreme Court ruled in 2023 that the race
00:04:02.360 conscious admissions programs at Harvard and University of North Carolina violated federal
00:04:07.640 law or the Constitution. The ruling didn't abolish every consideration touching race,
00:04:13.140 and so universities quickly looked for ways to preserve diversity goals through essays,
00:04:17.780 recruitment, socioeconomic proxies, and other methods. That's what institutions do when
00:04:23.200 incentives remain unchanged. They adapt. Corporations made similar adjustments as
00:04:28.720 legal pressure against DEI increased. Some renamed programs changed language or removed explicit
00:04:34.760 demographic preferences. But nobody should expect half a century of institutional habit to vanish
00:04:40.080 because the Supreme Court issued one opinion or because an executive order changed the mood in
00:04:44.860 Washington. Law changes behavior when violating it becomes expensive. That's the lesson the left
00:04:51.280 understood long ago. Civil rights organizations built durable legal institutions capable of 0.94
00:04:57.080 finding plaintiffs, financing cases, generating publicity, and making discrimination costly.
00:05:03.380 Lawyers could build careers bringing important cases.
00:05:06.520 Universities and corporations knew a bad decision could become a lawsuit, a settlement, a headline, or all three.
00:05:13.060 The right has built far less comparable infrastructure for people alleging discrimination because they're white or male.
00:05:19.380 Organizations like American First Legal have begun bringing these cases,
00:05:23.060 and other public interest firms challenge race and sex-based preferences.
00:05:26.520 but the scale remains small compared with the institutional ecosystem
00:05:30.520 that has enforced progressive civil rights priorities for decades.
00:05:34.580 Many potential plaintiffs still assume nobody will take their cases,
00:05:38.560 that suing will destroy their career,
00:05:40.600 or that publicly claiming discrimination against white men will make them objects of ridicule.
00:05:46.200 That social taboo is a powerful enforcement mechanism all by itself.
00:05:50.260 The answer is not to create special rights for white men. 0.74
00:05:53.140 They don't need them.
00:05:53.820 The answer is to enforce the rights they already possess with the same tenacity brought to every other discrimination claim.
00:06:00.900 That means sustained lawfare.
00:06:03.380 When a university uses a racial preference that violates the law, sue them.
00:06:08.840 When a corporation excludes applicants from a program because they're white or male, sue them.
00:06:13.840 When an employer retaliates against a worker for objecting to unlawful discrimination, sue them.
00:06:19.660 Find plaintiffs. Fund cases. Build precedent.
00:06:23.820 Publicize victories. Thousands and thousands of cases, week after week, make compliance departments understand that discriminating against white men carries real legal risks, just like it does when you discriminate against anyone else.
00:06:38.600 look we know that not every angry employee has a case not every disappointing admission or
00:06:44.580 promotion decision is discrimination but where unlawful discrimination exists conservatives
00:06:50.820 should stop treating litigation as somehow beneath them you're not too good to enforce it it's not
00:06:56.620 below your principles to actually make sure that white men can compete in an open and fair
00:07:02.380 environment. Institutions respond to incentives. For decades, the incentives pushed them towards 0.66
00:07:08.260 demographic engineering while telling white men that noticing was shameful. If equal protection
00:07:13.560 means anything, those incentives must run in both directions. The right doesn't need another
00:07:19.740 conference panel lamenting DEI. It needs lawyers willing to make discrimination expensive. 0.60
00:07:26.360 Equal protection will not enforce itself.
00:07:32.380 We'll see you next time.
00:08:02.380 my book, The Total State, you can head over to Amazon. It's in a second paperback edition with
00:08:07.060 a new chapter, so make sure to pick that up over there. And of course, you can watch all of my
00:08:11.860 shows and read all of my columns at The Blaze. Thanks for watching, and as always, I'll talk to
00:08:17.060 you next time.