The Culture War - Tim Pool - December 18, 2025


Discrimination Against White Men EXPOSED, DEI Narrative COLLAPSES ft. Amber Duke


Episode Stats

Length

33 minutes

Words per Minute

181.28127

Word Count

6,149

Sentence Count

355

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

10


Summary

J.D. Vance's piece about diversity and equal pay for women and non-whites is one of the most widely read pieces of journalism in recent memory, and it's getting a lot of traction online. Today, we re talking about how much better things got.


Transcript

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00:00:58.080 You've probably seen a lot of chatter about DEI on the timeline,
00:01:02.080 especially, and this is really particularly strange,
00:01:05.620 is you're seeing condemnation of it from people who previously would lambast you for complaining about it.
00:01:11.460 You know, I think what was happening here,
00:01:13.600 I don't know if you've had the chance to read the piece yet,
00:01:15.320 it was probably one of the biggest pieces of all time.
00:01:17.440 It had like 6 million views on just one tweet regarding it.
00:01:20.880 Absolutely massive piece.
00:01:21.860 It was this gentleman, Jacob Savage, who he was scalping tickets in Los Angeles.
00:01:27.120 And he had done this entire write-up doing a deep dive on some of the data regarding these DEI practices in Hollywood
00:01:34.680 and how they've had this sort of oppressive effect on white men specifically.
00:01:40.760 I won't read through the entire article.
00:01:42.460 I do recommend it.
00:01:43.180 It's a good piece.
00:01:44.100 He wrote here, this is a specific instance of some data that he presented.
00:01:49.280 In 2011, the year I moved to Los Angeles, white men were 48% of lower-level TV writers.
00:01:53.880 By 2024, they accounted for just 11.9%.
00:01:56.700 Massive drop.
00:01:58.120 Keep in mind, white men still make up about 35% of the country, 30, 35% of the country.
00:02:03.640 The Atlantic's editorial staff went from 53% male and 89% white in 2013 to 36% male and 66% white.
00:02:15.340 White men fell from 39% of tenure track positions in the humanities at Harvard in 2014 to 18% in 2023.
00:02:23.640 In retrospect, 2014 was the hinge.
00:02:26.700 The year DEI became institutionalized across American life.
00:02:30.980 So this is a great piece.
00:02:31.980 I mean, it went everywhere.
00:02:32.820 I mean, J.D. Vance was talking about it.
00:02:35.320 This was J.D. Vance's take on it.
00:02:37.620 A lot of people think DEI is a lame diversity seminars or racial slogans at NFL games.
00:02:42.440 In reality, it was a deliberate program of discrimination, primarily against white men.
00:02:46.560 This is an incredible piece that describes the evil of DEI and its consequences.
00:02:51.100 Ann Coulter pointed out this data point, obviously, that I just read.
00:02:55.320 That 14.6% of tenure track assistant professors hired at Yale had been white American men.
00:02:59.720 And the humanities, the number was just 6 out of 76.
00:03:06.040 Sorry, the other way around, but it was 6-7.
00:03:07.560 That would have caused a big issue.
00:03:09.020 7.9%.
00:03:10.260 Horrific, horrific stuff.
00:03:12.620 I mean, there's no other calculation to make than just like full-blown hatred for white men.
00:03:16.520 This poster here, Lindy Capital, he posted some graphs showing the dramatic drops among white men in a lot of these institutions.
00:03:27.080 And he outlines, obviously, I'm running a little bit out of time here, but he outlines, obviously, a lot of the incentive structures that these companies have had to basically root out white men and favor women and non-whites.
00:03:38.480 And if they reached their goal, they received an interest rate discount on their debt by banks.
00:03:43.420 So the incentive structures were there.
00:03:45.820 This wasn't just like a conscious, like philosophical movement.
00:03:48.500 There was legitimate financial interests at play in conducting this rooting out.
00:03:53.600 Matt Walsh here, he wrote,
00:03:54.800 This is a very, very salient point.
00:04:21.520 We're being punished for success, suffering for success, if you will.
00:04:26.100 So with that, I will bring in Amber, and we're going to see what she has to say.
00:04:31.800 All righty.
00:04:32.660 Well, how are you doing today?
00:04:33.640 Can you give the people a quick intro, who you are and what you do?
00:04:36.860 Absolutely.
00:04:37.500 My name is Amber Duke.
00:04:38.520 I'm the senior editor for The Daily Caller.
00:04:40.920 I'm also the Friday co-host of Rising at the Hill and co-host of Free Media at Reason.
00:04:46.600 I love that.
00:04:47.300 Well, thank you so much for hopping on.
00:04:48.720 And I wanted to bring you on to discuss, obviously, this piece that everyone is talking about.
00:04:53.700 I mean, from J.D. Vance to Milo to Ann Coulter, everyone is jumping on this piece,
00:04:59.020 and they're really scandalized by the findings.
00:05:01.000 Obviously, the author, Jacob Savage, sort of combed through all of this data
00:05:05.520 regarding the DEI practices specifically in Hollywood,
00:05:09.360 the implications that's had on the market at large,
00:05:11.700 but also like personal anecdotes from him and his friends on how this is impacting them.
00:05:15.860 I wanted to get your reaction to that piece, what your takeaway was,
00:05:19.880 and broadly what you think this means for the movement, or really America as a whole,
00:05:24.300 seeing these numbers laid out like that.
00:05:26.560 Exactly.
00:05:27.120 I think the numbers is really what was so shocking.
00:05:29.440 Everyone saw DEI happening in real time.
00:05:32.180 They saw this really concerted push from left-wing activists to not just have equal representation,
00:05:38.320 but actually over-representation by minority groups in various industries,
00:05:43.420 the media, Hollywood, academia.
00:05:46.280 He focuses on those three mostly in the piece.
00:05:49.080 But I don't think anyone realized just how bad it really was,
00:05:53.420 and particularly for young men.
00:05:55.420 People keep asking, why are young men turning right-wing?
00:05:58.860 Why are they seemingly open to radicalization and extremism?
00:06:02.460 Well, maybe it's because you don't let them have jobs.
00:06:05.420 And just to walk through some of these numbers, because they really are so stunning,
00:06:09.420 in the media, he talks about the Atlantic, which is the sort of left-wing, long-form, profile-type outlet.
00:06:17.760 Since 2020, nearly two-thirds of the hires have been women, along with nearly 50% of people of color.
00:06:23.620 And now, just as a reminder, white men make up about 30% to 35% of the population,
00:06:29.300 white people overall about 65% to 70%.
00:06:32.460 In 2024, the Atlantic announced that three-quarters of editorial hires in the past year
00:06:36.920 had been women and 69% people of color.
00:06:41.180 So if you're a boomer white guy, right, this is the point the piece makes.
00:06:45.960 You're kind of locked in.
00:06:47.140 You're grandfathered in pre-DEI.
00:06:49.660 You're probably not going to get outright fired.
00:06:51.780 Maybe your advancement will be stunted a little bit in whatever industry you're in.
00:06:56.320 But if you're a young Gen X to a Zoomer, you are completely being overlooked for these positions.
00:07:05.440 And it's clearly not the case, which was, this is the common left-wing argument about DEI-Tate,
00:07:11.660 is that the problem was not that they didn't want meritocracy.
00:07:16.420 It's that people who were meritorious but were people of color were being overlooked
00:07:21.380 simply because of their race or gender.
00:07:23.660 The fact that they are now overhiring to such a massive extent clearly demonstrates that that's not true.
00:07:31.900 I mean, are we really supposed to believe that this 69% of people of color,
00:07:36.740 despite being such a minuscule part of the population,
00:07:39.580 are better qualified for those roles than the 35% of white men or the 65% of white people in America?
00:07:48.480 Nobody believes that.
00:07:49.680 Yeah.
00:07:49.980 Yeah, absolutely.
00:07:50.920 I mean, there's so much to get into in this piece because I think there's also some valid criticism
00:07:56.540 coming from people on the right of some aspects of the piece.
00:07:59.840 But I think overall, again, it has this effect where, sort of like the Atlantic has done for years
00:08:06.000 with their long-form concept, I think Compact is sort of supplanting them in many ways
00:08:09.480 because they're putting this on people's kitchen tables.
00:08:11.700 They're laying out the data and people are saying,
00:08:13.620 wow, you know, I've heard people complaining about this, but I didn't realize how bad things were.
00:08:17.580 And I think that point that you made is very, very salient, which is, for kind of layman's terms,
00:08:23.800 you're seeing ladder pulling from a lot of these older guys where, like you said,
00:08:26.840 a lot of these boomers were sort of grandfathered into this.
00:08:29.340 They knew that they had job security, but they were pulling the ladder up from people
00:08:33.180 that came from the same background as they were because for a variety of reasons,
00:08:37.180 the incentive structures all bended towards hiring minorities, hiring women,
00:08:42.740 various other groups that were not like straight white men.
00:08:46.260 And so that's, I think, the really sinister part of all of this is that you're seeing these,
00:08:51.260 again, these straight white guys, these conventional hires that were in the boomer generation
00:08:56.920 really pulling the ladder up behind them.
00:09:00.340 That's exactly right.
00:09:01.840 And this is something that was really endemic to the DEI takeover.
00:09:08.040 For example, in academia, you would see that these white male university presidents
00:09:14.960 were so terrified of having protests on campus, of having students camp out in the president's office,
00:09:22.260 that they would just acquiesce to whatever demands that they had.
00:09:25.700 I mean, I remember at Georgetown, when it was discovered that the university had sold slaves
00:09:31.120 at one point in its history in order to save the university from bankruptcy, one of the responses
00:09:39.180 from student activist groups, one of the demands that they made was that the university needed
00:09:44.940 to make sure that new professors who were hired were like 50 percent people of color or something
00:09:51.200 in that vein.
00:09:52.200 And I went and looked at the actual racial breakdown, the racial demographics of professors at Georgetown
00:09:59.060 at that time.
00:10:00.200 And it turned out that people of color were actually already overrepresented as a portion of the population
00:10:06.120 in the Georgetown professor roles.
00:10:08.400 So they were actually asking to make an overrepresentation problem worse
00:10:13.360 in response to this, you know, hundreds of years old controversy.
00:10:19.780 And the people at the top, you know, regardless of whether it was white men or otherwise, were
00:10:24.880 so terrified of these people.
00:10:26.440 They didn't want bad PR.
00:10:27.680 They didn't want social media campaigns.
00:10:29.860 They didn't want to have to deal with the annoyance of having student protesters running
00:10:33.700 around campus all day.
00:10:34.820 So they just completely abdicated leadership and responsibility for their institutions.
00:10:38.700 Yeah, yeah, I mean, because that's that seemed to be the main sort of I don't know if gripe
00:10:43.120 because I think everyone is acknowledging this is a good piece and this was good for
00:10:46.440 the country at large.
00:10:47.460 But one thing people pointed out is that pretty much all of the blame was laid at the feet
00:10:52.360 of sort of boomer white men.
00:10:54.600 And it wasn't addressed enough was the action and the activism of young women and ethnic minorities,
00:11:01.320 because in a lot of ways, I don't think it's necessarily fair to say I'm sure some of them
00:11:05.480 were, but I don't think it's fair to say that all these boomers were just complete
00:11:08.200 ideologues that wanted to ensure that young white guys were completely locked out of the
00:11:12.100 system.
00:11:12.600 I think a lot of them were, like you alluded to, were reacting out of fear.
00:11:16.080 They were reacting out of like terror.
00:11:18.280 And there was a lot of cowardice to not do the right thing because they were feeling threatened.
00:11:21.680 They felt like their position of standing might be threatened if they didn't acquiesce
00:11:25.320 to this activist insurgency that was occurring at the bottom levels.
00:11:29.060 And so in a lot of ways, again, a lot of the blame is laid at their feet because ultimately
00:11:34.160 they were the ones that refused to stand up for what was right.
00:11:36.980 They displayed immense cowardice, but a lot of them were just reacting to this activist
00:11:42.600 base that I think a lot of people are a little too afraid to critique in addition to the larger
00:11:48.040 issue.
00:11:49.540 Yeah, I think that's exactly right.
00:11:50.840 This was not an ideological move by the people at the top.
00:11:53.760 This was a move of cowardice.
00:11:55.100 And it definitely speaks to, I think, the just immense abdication of responsibility, as I said,
00:12:03.880 that they were willing to completely change institutional cultures for the sake of basically
00:12:10.000 new hires.
00:12:11.100 And we see this in media outlets, too.
00:12:13.120 I wrote about this in my book.
00:12:14.280 It's called The Snowflakes Revolt.
00:12:15.560 I talk about a lot of these issues in the media in terms of the shift towards really basically
00:12:25.960 trying to over-empathize with the feelings of young staffers who are making ridiculous
00:12:32.080 demands of their leaders.
00:12:34.600 And we would see in these media outlets that a lot of the people who were complaining about
00:12:41.660 editorial decisions that were supposedly racist or not sympathetic enough to LGBT rights, that
00:12:48.820 these people were not even in the editorial process.
00:12:52.820 It was people like cartoonists or people who worked in marketing.
00:12:56.740 These were not people who were even on editorial staff.
00:13:01.000 And a lot of them were part-time.
00:13:03.320 But they would get together.
00:13:04.780 They would create these unions.
00:13:06.660 And so that's another element here that I think needs to be explored in the media and
00:13:10.660 Hollywood space, is that a lot of this pressure comes from union leadership as well.
00:13:16.000 Once these young people are able to coalesce into a union, that obviously gives them greater
00:13:21.180 bargaining rights.
00:13:22.100 And no boss who's trying to run a profitable company is going to want to get in a long strike
00:13:28.760 or union fight, right?
00:13:30.600 That's just bad for business.
00:13:32.380 And so when you actually have an institutionalized way of these people protesting, as opposed to
00:13:37.460 just these sort of loosely collected people sitting in the president's office, that actually
00:13:42.880 becomes a danger to your bottom line.
00:13:45.120 Yeah.
00:13:45.380 I mean, that's what we saw with the writer's strike.
00:13:47.340 It was like a year or two ago with SAG-AFTA, where obviously they went on strike, basically held
00:13:51.920 all of Hollywood hostage for, it was a few months, if I recall.
00:13:55.760 And that entire sort of movement, that whatever you want to call it, had a distinct leftist
00:14:01.380 flavor to it.
00:14:02.240 Because pretty much all of the demands that they were making, again, were pretty much
00:14:05.920 indistinguishable from sort of these left-wing activists that you would see across the country.
00:14:10.400 And the sort of makeup of this union, again, skewed very young, skewed towards groups that
00:14:18.660 you would see among activists.
00:14:20.540 And all the sort of support they would receive were mainly from older boomers that, again,
00:14:24.800 didn't really have to worry about losing their jobs, because all that was expected of them
00:14:28.440 was to sing along, hand the keys over, and then retire in five years.
00:14:32.020 And I think we need to take from this piece, too, a really fundamental question, which really
00:14:39.680 cuts at the heart of the advocation for DEI, which is the idea that representation matters,
00:14:48.020 because if you don't have certain voices in the room, or people from certain backgrounds
00:14:52.320 in the room, that there's going to be an inherent bias that is skewed against those voices, that
00:14:59.180 they have unique insight that is going to actually provide more value to the institution,
00:15:05.000 just by nature of them being Black or being a woman, et cetera.
00:15:09.600 Well, let's run through these institutions that the author is writing about, the media.
00:15:15.820 They have been hiring, as we demonstrated, 50% to 60% of their new hires are people of color
00:15:21.920 or general minorities.
00:15:24.680 Same thing in Hollywood.
00:15:26.500 He talks about TV writing.
00:15:27.960 He talks about academia.
00:15:29.900 Would anyone argue, at this point, that all three of those institutions, any of the three,
00:15:36.920 are better off now than they were prior to this big George Floyd push to over-representatively
00:15:47.960 hire POCs?
00:15:49.760 Right.
00:15:50.120 Or do people distrust these institutions more than ever?
00:15:53.640 Is the content bad, right?
00:15:55.780 Like, we haven't seen any value add from this diversity shift because, as we all know, the
00:16:03.000 real diversity that matters is ideological diversity, intellectual diversity, where you're
00:16:07.640 actually having debates about what TV shows are people actually going to watch?
00:16:12.520 Are we appealing to the wrong audience?
00:16:16.220 Is this writing snappy?
00:16:17.280 Or are we just trying to prove some kind of woke point?
00:16:21.860 So pretty much everything has gotten demonstrably worse.
00:16:25.420 Trust in institutions has gone down at the precise time that this DEI push was really ramping up.
00:16:31.220 Yeah.
00:16:31.440 I mean, the author points out, like, 2014 is where you start to see the groundwork laid.
00:16:35.780 But, yeah, things really started ramping up during the George Floyd BLM era.
00:16:39.720 But, yeah, something that's interesting, we had a guest on Tim Guest IRL last night who
00:16:44.200 was of the left.
00:16:44.980 There was no question about that.
00:16:46.440 And we kind of got into it in the after show because we got into this sort of debate over
00:16:51.340 immigration and these sorts of things.
00:16:53.560 And he was making this point that really what he values above all in regards to our immigration
00:16:57.580 system is it further diversifies the country.
00:17:00.860 He said he was a proponent of diversity.
00:17:02.940 And when I posited the question, what specifically about diversity has intrinsic value, he kind
00:17:10.480 of just kept dancing on the question because he was really just advocating for diversity
00:17:14.360 for diversity's sake.
00:17:16.020 And then eventually the mask slips and he just admits that I really just don't like when
00:17:20.060 places are very white.
00:17:22.040 He clearly, and this was a white guy, but he clearly had some bone to pick with white
00:17:27.320 people.
00:17:27.680 He had some sort of, you know, axe to grind.
00:17:30.700 And it was really hits at the heart of, I think, what's going on with a lot of these
00:17:34.380 things is that, again, most of the sort of boilerplate lines they're able to give about
00:17:39.400 diversity, like you're saying, like, well, you know, it increases like different ideas
00:17:42.680 in the, in whatever room the decisions are being made.
00:17:45.280 It's like, again, everyone is this point with how, how much democratization we've seen
00:17:51.600 of information.
00:17:52.180 Trust me, everyone has different ideas about a variety of topics.
00:17:55.080 Like we're not at a shortage of ideologues.
00:17:57.640 There's no question about that.
00:17:58.800 It's bizarre to me to advocate for a policy because, again, you just have a prejudice against
00:18:04.300 white people.
00:18:04.960 Fundamentally, you are discomfort, you're uncomfortable with being around like a very
00:18:10.280 white place.
00:18:11.100 And I think that's kind of at the core of what's going on here.
00:18:13.980 Oh, I totally agree.
00:18:15.200 This stems from just hatred, bitter, bitterness and resentment towards white men.
00:18:19.600 I mean, that's really what it's all about.
00:18:20.900 All of these academic intellectual arguments are just after the fact justifications for
00:18:28.920 racism.
00:18:29.880 That's the reality here.
00:18:31.660 And I think that definitely needs to be said stronger.
00:18:34.580 And that was one of the criticisms of the piece, too, was that they say, well, we don't
00:18:39.800 really blame the people who took the jobs from us because, you know, if you were offered
00:18:43.560 an opportunity, you would take it.
00:18:45.620 But I think that kind of ignores that a large amount of the advocacy for these policies came
00:18:54.120 from these groups that benefited, right?
00:18:55.860 This was self-interest at the expense of another racial group.
00:19:00.480 And so that needs to be acknowledged and called out for what it is.
00:19:03.960 Yeah, absolutely.
00:19:05.080 I mean, that kind of illustrates the, I think, the biggest kind of gripe people had with it.
00:19:10.080 Again, I want to reiterate, like, it's a good piece.
00:19:12.240 It's directionally correct.
00:19:13.480 I like that term.
00:19:14.460 I've learned that term recently.
00:19:15.840 We're still trying to flush out what that even means, but it's directionally correct
00:19:19.240 as far as, like, it has a benefit to the political zeitgeist in many ways.
00:19:24.080 But, and this is, I think, an accurate assessment of the piece is in many ways, it's a permission
00:19:28.800 piece because what it does is it allows people specifically to the left of, like, Ted Cruz
00:19:35.200 that have been lambasting and trying to push down people that are conservatives for years who
00:19:40.620 have been pointing this out saying, hey, like, white men are getting discriminated against
00:19:44.300 in a variety of ways.
00:19:45.500 And previously where they would try to get you fired or, again, try to freeze you out
00:19:50.040 of whatever career path you would have available to you for making this case.
00:19:54.160 All of a sudden this piece drops and then now all of them are like, yeah, this is an issue.
00:19:57.260 This is a big issue.
00:19:58.020 Like, duh.
00:19:58.760 We've all been saying, like, yes, we've been saying this for years.
00:20:02.440 Like, welcome to the team.
00:20:03.720 So I think there's some value in saying welcome to the team, but at the same time, that is
00:20:09.000 a big critique of it is that, A, again, it's this sort of permission piece, and then B,
00:20:13.940 that it begs the question of, like, okay, what now?
00:20:17.020 I mean, Jeremy Carl, he wrote a fantastic response because obviously Jeremy Carl's been writing
00:20:21.460 about this for, like, decades.
00:20:23.940 And he pointed out, like, look, I mean, again, I'm glad you laid out the data.
00:20:28.200 We've been saying this.
00:20:29.340 But it begs the question, what now?
00:20:31.660 What action can we make?
00:20:32.600 Because the piece ends just basically demoralizing.
00:20:35.440 Like, I don't know what I'm going to tell my kids when they try to follow their dreams.
00:20:38.800 And it's like, okay, it's useful to point out the issue.
00:20:42.980 Conservatives are very good at pointing out issues.
00:20:45.120 But what about the solution?
00:20:46.460 How do we get out of this?
00:20:47.640 Like, how can we ensure that your kids don't have to run up against that wall?
00:20:52.600 Yeah, it's a great point.
00:20:53.900 And I think describing it as a permission piece is pretty perfect.
00:20:57.420 It kind of reminds me of when there was that exodus from the New York Times with Barry
00:21:02.520 Weiss et al.
00:21:03.820 And they started writing about how crazy things had gotten on trans issues and how the newspapers
00:21:09.780 were totally captured by ideologues.
00:21:12.620 And we were all like, hey, welcome to the party.
00:21:15.280 We've been waiting five years for you to get here.
00:21:18.240 Yeah.
00:21:18.660 And it's like the exact same thing happening here, right?
00:21:22.400 It's for the people who don't really watch Matt Walsh's show or they think that Charlie
00:21:27.780 Kirk's comments on the DEI pilots were distasteful because they just hear the one sentence said
00:21:33.240 by the people, you know, trashing him after his death.
00:21:36.260 It's for those people to read an ostensibly, you know, mainstream argument and publication
00:21:42.500 from a guy who doesn't have like a long history of being a conservative activist and say,
00:21:46.580 oh, yeah, actually, I kind of agree with that.
00:21:48.080 Yeah, yeah, it is frustrating when people who were like dyed in the wool leftists until
00:21:52.420 like two years ago come along and then just start like lecturing conservatives on like
00:21:56.660 how we ought to conduct ourselves.
00:21:58.160 I'm not saying he specifically is doing that, but a lot of people that are like, no, this
00:22:01.960 is great.
00:22:02.300 It's like, OK, like, welcome.
00:22:04.240 But like, you know, wait your turn.
00:22:05.720 Like we're busy doing things over here.
00:22:08.060 But yeah, I think Matt Walsh specifically made an excellent point regarding the sort of the
00:22:14.160 implication of DEI in which he said, if you look through, for example, the history of Western
00:22:19.080 civilization and you were to compile a list of like the thousand most impactful people in the
00:22:23.460 country and paraphrasing his tweet, if you were to compile a list of the thousand most impactful
00:22:27.420 people throughout civilization, he ballparked like 975 of them would be white men.
00:22:32.900 Again, this isn't necessarily chess beating.
00:22:34.820 He's just making the point like this is how you thank them.
00:22:37.720 I mean, you kind of ride with the hot hand in many ways.
00:22:40.320 Why punish them?
00:22:42.000 Because, again, if we believe in a meritocracy, you're just going to hire the best people that
00:22:47.080 are, you know, resume wise.
00:22:48.820 And if that skews white to white men, it skews to white men.
00:22:51.700 I don't see why that's like such a pernicious thing.
00:22:54.180 I don't really see white men organizing on the basis of identity.
00:22:59.260 That's still like very frowned upon all across the political spectrum.
00:23:03.600 But you see with other groups that they are sort of advocating as a group.
00:23:07.800 They are advocating for, look, we're not we don't care about merit.
00:23:11.020 We want to share at the table.
00:23:12.240 And that to me is specifically pernicious thing.
00:23:14.460 And that line that he used, this is how you thank them, seems very on point.
00:23:19.840 Absolutely.
00:23:20.380 And there's two points I want to make here.
00:23:22.660 And the second, I'll get into what's next because you raised that.
00:23:26.400 The first one is that when looking at the media, one thing I find really interesting about
00:23:31.080 your point about how groups organize and how white men and I think white people kind of
00:23:36.000 generally have excluded themselves from that paradigm.
00:23:39.400 One of the really fascinating dichotomies to watch in the media over the past 10 years
00:23:45.080 is that as they've made this concerted effort to start hiring more people of color, what
00:23:50.800 is still really underrepresented in the media are just normal Americans.
00:23:54.840 And what I mean by that is when the media decided in the early 1900s that you had to go to journalism
00:24:03.160 school to prove that you could meet some amorphous standard of objectivity in order to become a
00:24:09.280 journalist, whereas it used to be a working class trade.
00:24:12.060 What happened was that most of the people who work for these major publications are sort of all cut from
00:24:17.720 the same class.
00:24:18.620 They all have journalism degrees.
00:24:20.400 They all went to elite universities.
00:24:22.760 They mostly grew up in cities.
00:24:25.480 They tend to have parents who are white-collar.
00:24:27.780 There aren't a lot of journalists who have parents who are blue-collar.
00:24:30.300 I'm one of the few.
00:24:32.380 And if you look at the pages of the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal, one thing
00:24:37.080 that's really stunning is that they have the same educational attainment as U.S.
00:24:41.420 senators and Supreme Court justices.
00:24:43.760 I mean, it's wild.
00:24:44.980 Like, they really are like the elite of the elite.
00:24:47.360 And as far as I can tell, the effort to hire minorities hasn't changed that.
00:24:51.560 You're still getting people from relatively the same background.
00:24:54.380 So it's not really actually experience or background diversity at all in the way that
00:24:59.900 it was sold to us.
00:25:00.940 Now, on the what's next, there was a really amazing video that came out yesterday, actually,
00:25:07.540 from the EEOC chair, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, telling white men, if you
00:25:13.400 have been discriminated against in your jobs, we are going to go to bat for you.
00:25:17.220 Please reach out.
00:25:18.280 We want to make sure that the people who were racist against you are held accountable, that
00:25:23.540 your workplaces are places of equal opportunity.
00:25:26.380 So there is movement from the federal government.
00:25:28.860 Also, last week, the Department of Justice sort of quietly rolled back their disparate impact
00:25:36.840 liability, which means that if a workplace is discriminating, not intentionally so, not because
00:25:45.440 they don't like black people, but because the outcome is different.
00:25:48.460 So if you have a policy that leads to you hiring more white men and fewer black men, for example,
00:25:56.660 even if the policy itself does not have some different standard applying to white men versus
00:26:02.760 black men, if the outcome is different, that's disparate impact, and you can be held liable
00:26:07.860 under civil rights law.
00:26:09.780 The DOJ said we're basically not going to prosecute any of those cases anymore.
00:26:14.320 We're not going to investigate any of those cases.
00:26:16.540 One of the big ones that just drove me absolutely insane was during the Biden administration,
00:26:21.440 the same day that President Joe Biden went to Sheetz to do a campaign stop and basically
00:26:26.460 show how much of a working class guy that he is.
00:26:29.200 He Scranton Joe, he went to get his schmuffin or whatever it was at Sheetz.
00:26:33.620 This is a great family-owned American institution.
00:26:36.040 It's based in the Mid-Atlantic for people who aren't familiar.
00:26:38.960 The same day, his EEOC announced a lawsuit against Sheetz under the disparate impact clause.
00:26:45.580 What did Sheetz do?
00:26:47.020 They said that they weren't going to hire certain criminals.
00:26:50.280 That's literally it.
00:26:51.180 They have a policy that they review every job applicant's criminal record, and there are
00:26:58.140 certain things, we don't know exactly what they are because their hiring standards are
00:27:02.040 not fully public, but there are certain things where whatever's on your criminal background
00:27:06.220 check could cause you to not get hired.
00:27:08.560 Now, I assume it's probably things like violent crimes, felonies, right?
00:27:12.020 If you meet some certain threshold of a criminal history, then you don't get hired at Sheetz.
00:27:16.700 Great.
00:27:17.040 I don't want the person working the cash register at Sheetz to be a hardened criminal, right?
00:27:21.320 Seems pretty common sense, but because Black people have higher crime rates and tend to
00:27:29.000 have lengthier criminal backgrounds or are more likely to commit violent crime, that had
00:27:34.180 a disparate impact on Sheetz's ability to hire Black people, and so the Biden administration
00:27:39.460 sued them.
00:27:40.420 The Trump administration dropped the lawsuit and is now getting rid of all similar investigations
00:27:46.060 related to disparate impact, which is huge.
00:27:47.900 Yeah, and that's kind of the tricky thing about undoing a lot of this because from the
00:27:55.260 EOC's perspective and other related government organizations, if they were to subpoena these
00:28:00.580 leaders that have built out this discrimination apparatus, it's really difficult to pin them
00:28:06.080 down because in the piece and also broader commentary, they've outlined how discreet a lot
00:28:12.300 of these things are because you look at the movies when you would see discrimination against
00:28:15.920 like Black people and they'd be like walking into a help wanted sign and they'd be like,
00:28:19.560 no, get out of here or whatever.
00:28:20.840 Like it was very on the nose.
00:28:21.740 Right.
00:28:22.400 But like when white guys are applying to these places, there's like an entire incentive structure
00:28:27.300 all across the United States that is pointing away from them.
00:28:33.220 And so these companies, they just have these really discreet things like, we want to hire
00:28:36.720 someone that comes from like a unique perspective, like a diverse background.
00:28:41.460 And then they can like, you know, ask a few pointed questions in the interviews to have
00:28:45.480 like a justification to say, ah, he just wouldn't be like a great fit for our company culture.
00:28:50.220 They have all these like really just like gay terms that they use to justify this discrimination.
00:28:56.540 And that's, what's going to make it so difficult if the government, for example, is to take action
00:29:00.780 on these, these sorts of things, because outside of the data, they have a lot of plausible deniability
00:29:06.520 with a lot of these things.
00:29:07.660 And that's what makes it so difficult to, again, put together a case here because it's
00:29:13.040 going, it's going to have to be case by case in a lot of situations, but yeah, so much
00:29:16.880 of it is just calculated prudent.
00:29:19.820 And that's what makes it also so sinister.
00:29:22.360 That's how you can tell it legitimately is a full throated effort to ensure that you can
00:29:27.480 crowd these people out and freeze them out forever.
00:29:29.720 That's right.
00:29:30.300 I think you have to start with the really obvious cases because especially from 2020
00:29:34.900 to 2023, there, there, people were admitting it out loud, right?
00:29:39.700 I mean, they were not, they were, a lot of them weren't discreet.
00:29:42.140 So you start with those, the ones that were more discreet and subtle, I think you have to
00:29:46.280 have whistleblowers who are brave enough to come forward, which is why the cowardice demonstrated
00:29:50.740 in the piece by certain people is so infuriating because it perpetuated the system.
00:29:55.580 Um, and I mean, I also think, um, getting to the point about, um, uh, just like moving
00:30:05.880 forward and what the EEOC is doing, having this come from the federal government and, and
00:30:11.740 really open up that, um, permission structure as we're talking about, um, from the government
00:30:18.820 is really important just to show people that they have someone who's on their side, um, and
00:30:23.280 that there is an actual force with teeth that can back them up.
00:30:28.320 Yeah.
00:30:28.800 Well, I guess we can start with Joe Biden.
00:30:30.780 Cause he literally said, I'm only going to hire a POC woman to be my vice president.
00:30:35.640 So, I mean, it's like at the highest level, but, uh, yeah, Amber, we, we're, we're starting
00:30:40.000 to run out of time here.
00:30:40.860 I wanted to ask for maybe your closing thoughts, um, on, on all of this that we've discussed
00:30:45.420 and also where people can find you to get more of your work.
00:30:48.360 Absolutely.
00:30:48.800 I want to tell one more quick story on this point of the subtlety when I was working at
00:30:53.260 WMAL, which is a conservative radio station in DC, they were owned by a corporate, uh,
00:30:58.320 conglomerate called Cumulus media, which owns a lot of the conservative media stations around
00:31:02.820 the country.
00:31:03.440 And on their, uh, workplace database, I was shocked one day when I logged on and I found
00:31:08.940 out that they were offering bonuses to people who recommended diverse candidates to be hired.
00:31:16.820 If the candidate ultimately got hired, you would get like a $2,000 bonus in your check.
00:31:20.840 So it's exactly what you said, Tate.
00:31:22.700 It's, it's the diverse backgrounds, right?
00:31:25.220 And we're going to, we're going to actually give you money if you recommend some black woman
00:31:29.660 and she ends up getting hired at the radio station.
00:31:31.700 So it really is unbelievably pervasive.
00:31:34.860 Um, I think this piece is, is a good start, I guess, and, and at least illuminating the problem
00:31:40.800 and just how bad it got.
00:31:42.000 Um, but we're going to need serious action to correct this.
00:31:45.040 And so I'm Amber Duke, everybody, you can find my work at dailycaller.com.
00:31:49.400 I'm also on Substack under state of the day.
00:31:51.960 And every Friday I'm on rising every Tuesday and Wednesday on reason, uh, on YouTube.
00:31:57.080 So thanks to everybody.
00:31:58.360 Awesome.
00:31:58.860 Thank you so much, Amber.
00:31:59.680 I'll see you around and Merry Christmas.
00:32:01.520 Merry Christmas.
00:32:02.320 We can say that now.
00:32:03.560 It's so true.
00:32:04.300 All right.
00:32:04.640 See you later.
00:32:05.660 Bye.
00:32:06.560 All right.
00:32:07.140 Well, that was the great Amber Duke, man.
00:32:08.740 Yeah.
00:32:09.000 It's, it's so pernicious.
00:32:10.920 The, the oppression against swag, swagged up white boys with a little bit of motion.
00:32:15.840 They hate to see that the left really hates to see the left really hates to see a swagged
00:32:20.820 out boy with motion open in the corner, because we will knock that down every single time.
00:32:24.840 I'm talking Kyle Corver.
00:32:26.360 That is sort of the level that I'm talking about.
00:32:29.400 They hate to see it.
00:32:30.400 And they've built an entire apparatus around destroying that.
00:32:33.860 They hate to see that dub with that.
00:32:37.800 Guys, this is the last live show of the year.
00:32:41.540 It's very sad.
00:32:42.620 I have to say goodbye to you guys.
00:32:44.020 And, uh, I don't know what this sort of show is going to look like in the new year.
00:32:47.460 I hope I'm here again to chat with you guys, but there's a lot of things moving behind the
00:32:51.780 scenes.
00:32:52.000 So we'll have to see how this show evolves and whatnot.
00:32:54.880 We are going to raid you guys.
00:32:56.680 We're going to send you guys over to the great DeVorey darkens and, uh, you'll go hang
00:33:00.740 out with him for the next hour.
00:33:01.820 It's going to be fantastic.
00:33:03.120 And, uh, yeah, I just want to say thank you guys very much for, um,
00:33:06.920 hanging out as the show develops.
00:33:08.720 Obviously I had to develop, we had to, uh, a lot of different, uh, wrenches thrown in
00:33:13.160 and we sort of made it work.
00:33:14.500 And this, I think this week it went well.
00:33:15.960 I'm very happy with sort of how this presentation went, but I hope I will see you guys in the
00:33:19.540 new year.
00:33:19.780 You'll definitely see me on Tim cast IRL and some of our other shows.
00:33:23.120 But with that, you can follow me on X and Instagram at real tape Brown.
00:33:26.800 Come give me a follow there.
00:33:27.920 Just in case I don't see you after the new year, just in case, um, we will be back tonight
00:33:31.720 at 8 PM for Tim cast IRL.
00:33:33.840 I want to wish everyone a merry, merry Christmas and a happy new year.
00:33:37.820 See you guys later.
00:33:38.580 I want to wish everyone a merry, merry Christmas and a merry Christmas and a happy new year.