Posted on 03/07/2025 5:31:54 AM PST by MtnClimber
The op-ed was entitled “Can White Men Finally Stop Complaining?” and it appeared the other day in the Wall Street Journal. White men, it charged, have a “victim mentality” – even though they’re back on top. Not only has Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office, but for white dudes, everything’s coming up roses:
The manosphere won. Bro podcasters top the charts. Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg declares his company needs more “masculine energy.” Elon Musk shares a post saying only “high-status males” should run the country. The White House kills diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies, and so do multiple companies, from Target to McDonalds.
Yet white men keep complaining: for over half a century they’ve “blamed others for their job losses, educational failures, economic problems and drug addictions….Somebody else is always at fault. The mighty white guy, it turns out, is quite the delicate flower.”
Who wrote this intrepid j’accuse? Her name is Joanne Lipman. I checked out her Wikipedia page. She was raised in suburban New Jersey; her mother was a “programmer analyst,” her father a CEO. At Yale she got she got a summa cum laude in history. She’s worked at Conde Nast, as “chief content officer” for Gannett, and as editor-in-chief of USA Today. She’s on the Council of Foreign Relations. And she married her husband, an “entertainment lawyer,” at the National Arts Club in Manhattan.
Yes, it’s all right out of one of those New York Times wedding announcements. Which is another way of saying that Lipman is a member of the progressive cultural elite from Central Casting.
But back to her article. Whatever else it might have been, it was a perfect specimen of Conde Nast copy – not a sincere effort to argue a serious point, but a slick stretch of prose intended to gratify upscale left-wingers by telling them what they want to hear, even if it turns the truth on its head. How clever to assert that the very people who’ve complained about victim mentalities are the ones who really have a victim mentality! How cunning to contend that it’s the “mighty white guy” who’s really “the delicate flower”!
It’s cute. It’s facile. It’s oh so glib. It’s adorably contrarian. And it’s patently untrue. Indeed, it’s pretty offensive. In 2025 America, men – most of them white – still do the dirty jobs, the deadly jobs, the thankless jobs. Many of them choose not to go to college because the environment is so toxically anti-male. Instead they take hard jobs, real jobs, and work long days until they’re bone-weary – only to turn on the TV in the evening and hear themselves demonized by the likes of Al Sharpton and Rachel Maddow.
Of course, when it comes to dishonesty, Lipman gave Sharpton and Maddow a run for their money. Instead of fairly representing the argument against DEI, she actually harkened back to the 1970s to cite an episode of All in the Family on which Archie Bunker “complained about a female colleague whose pay was equal to his.” Lipman quoted Archie: “What’s the point of a man working hard all his life, trying to get someplace, if all he’s gonna do is wind up equal?!”
Does anyone really believe that this line of fifty-year-old sitcom dialogue sums up your average white American male’s point of view in the year 2025? No. It doesn’t even sum up what your average white American male was thinking in the 1970s: Archie, the working-class bigot from Queens, was a fool, a buffoon, a cartoon character – the fever dream of Malibu mega-producer Norman Lear.
Yes, Lipman included in her op-ed the obligatory “to be sure” sentences, acknowledging that in recent decades, while women have begun “earning more college degrees than men,” the loss of manufacturing jobs has resulted in the denial to “white men without college degrees” of “opportunities for a robust middle-class life.” She admitted that the media have long depicted men as “idiots” and that “white guys aren’t all sexists or racists.” Gee, thanks. Talk about faint praise. Still, she insisted that white guys have it far too good to be complaining.
Of course, the timing was perfect for Lipman’s dose of nonsense. In the November election, every county in the nation shifted to the right. Wokeness seems to be crumbling. What a time to go solidly against the grain, to rally the PC crowd! What could be more wonderfully contrarian than defending DEI at a time when a presidential administration that was a total DEI freak show (a gay Transportation Secretary who took paternity leave; a health official who was a portly man in a bad wig; an imbecilic black lesbian press secretary; a “genderfluid” nuclear-waste administrator who stole suitcases at airports; and a mushmouthed vice president whose only credential was being Indian, Afro-Jamaican, and female) has yielded to a dream team of men, women, gays, blacks, Hindus, etc., all of whom are presentable, and all of who are there on sheer merit?
And this is all that most white men have been asking for – equality, fairness, meritocracy. Period. Reading Lipman’s piece, I recalled the time when comedian Adam Carolla, who began his career doing menial work on construction sites, testified to a congressional committee that he waited seven years after applying for a job as a fireman to be granted an interview. Waiting in line at the fire department he asked the black woman behind him when she’d applied. “Wednesday,” she said.
Carolla’s was not a unique personal story. Many men have them. When I went to grad school in the 1980s, which I was able to afford because of a teaching assistantship that covered my tuition, it was virtually impossible to get fifth-year financial support – if you were a white male. Fortunately, I finished my Ph.D. in four years. But the one black woman in the program didn’t. She ended up getting not only fifth-year support but sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and (if memory serves) even tenth-year support. That’s how desperate the department was to have a black female Ph.D. to point to.
Does Lipman really buy her own snide line about white men’s wimpy fear of “the scary DEI monster,” her premise that DEI is a tool of social justice, a cure-all for sexism and racism – rather than the decidedly unjust enemy of merit, skill, and effort? I sorely doubt it. She’s not the kind of writer who’s mounting the barricades in the name of illuminating reality, speaking truth to power, setting the facts straight. No, I think she’s just one more soldier in an army of smug, complacent pseudo-journalists whose role, as they see it, is to ratify the knee-jerk mindsets of upscale, Democrat-to-the-death readers – in this case, affirming those readers’ disdain for the the overwhelmingly white male riffraff who farm their food, build their homes, connect their electricity, and maintain their roads.
I understand, then, why Lipman is a hot ticket at Conde Nast, where such glib garbage belongs. But why would the Wall Street Journal, one of the few remaining bastions of reasonably sane commentary in the legacy media, choose to run such a piece – especially since its most steadfast readers are, by and large, white males?
Is Lipman a Jewish Surname”
“Yes, Lipman is traditionally a Jewish surname. It is of Ashkenazi Jewish origin”
Can Leftists stop Whining about and Demonizing White Men? I’m 54. For my entire life, it has been not only acceptable but actually required to openly discriminate against White Men for school applications, jobs, government grants, etc etc. White Men far more than any other group have been demonized and belittled by Hollywood and in the corporate media. In fact, the corporate media go miles out of their way to tout whenever a criminal is White while doing the exact opposite whenever a criminal is Black going so far as to only describe what the perp was wearing or only talking about the SUV that was used to mow down a bunch of people at a parade in what was clearly a racist attack.
The Courts have openly discriminated against men in terms of handing out harsher penalties for the same crimes, in terms of awarding custody of children far less often in divorce cases, in terms of giving women a choice as to whether to become a parent or not when there is a pregnancy but giving men no choice at all, etc etc.
Yet, when White Men FINALLY start pushing back against this non stop demonization and outright discrimination...when White Men point out that we have laws against discrimination against anybody for their ethnicity or sex, here you are to whine about White Men again. When will you Leftists ever stop whining about White Men?
Just substitute one word for another and see what happens.
Baser is a real writer, but he missed on Archie Bunker. The program was such a raving success because so many Americans, men and women alike, identified with Bunker’s populist reaction against the liberal mind virus. Norman Lear, who had intended the opposite, was distraught at what he had done. He had inadvertently tapped into a deep well of discontent.
It is disgusting that in 2025 discrimination against white men is still tolerated in any form or any place.
We need to see more lawsuits against anyone and everyone discriminating against whites or asians on the basis of race.
One look and you can tell that lady is a “s” for brains goof.
Can anyone here imagine the uproar if someone penned an article, “Can Black people finally stop complaining?” Especially if the article showed how the lives of black people have improved over the last 100 years? Would anyone have the cojones to actually publish it?
The WSJ is garbage. I wish FBN would quit trying to give credibility to that bunch of communists. Lately they’ve been trotting out Gerry Baker, all that does is make me switch channels and wish I could punch that old English commie in the head.
Oh....did I mention the AP capitalizing Black but refusing to do the same with white? Did I mention - FOR YEARS that the White guy was always portrayed in commercials and on TV programs as the idiot, the fool, the dunce who had to be bailed out by the oh so clever woman or Black person?
Did I mention that media portrayals of interracial couples are OVERWHELMINGLY of a Black man and a White woman but very very rarely the other way around?
You Lefties want to claim all of the above is no big deal? My response is You’d DAMN SURE NOTICE if it was ANY other group of people treated this way. Literally ANY. You’re super quick to notice any perceived slight directed at any of the group you favor. Yet you’re more than happy to dish it out to White Men.
Yes, we noticed. We’ve noticed for a long time.
The secular Jew, and possibility some of the sects, view white people as their enemy. There are too many people with Jewish surnames involved in activities that would see a genocide of 800 million people to explain it any other way.
Yes, the Torah-observant Jew is not involved. I believe this fully, because they understand that everybody exists as a creation of God and attacking the creation of God is attacking God Himself, but the others don’t seem to share this viewpoint. To them, white people are the enemy and the solution is elimination.
Standard issue projection from a room temperature IQ Alt Leftist.
This is a “why are you making us hit you” argument
After decades of sleazy infantile white male bashing, suddenly the bashers are now whining because the “Old White Males” are fighting back
From Wiki:
In February 2024, the Journal laid off about 20 employees, primarily economics reporters based in Washington, D.C. Moving forward, those beats will be covered by the newspaper's New York-based business team.[88] The next month the paper laid off another five people from its standards and ethics team.[89] In April, the paper laid off at least 11 people from its video and social media desks.[90] In May, the Journal cut six editorial staff positions from its Hong Kong bureau and another two reporter jobs in Singapore. Moving forward the paper will shift its focus in the region from Hong Kong to Singapore with new the creation of several new jobs at that bureau.[91] More staff were laid off a few weeks later amid further restructuring, including at least eight reporters.[92]Remember the BS of General Milley reading about and "trying" to understand "white rage?" This zeitgeist will pass. But in doing so, it's going to make a lot of people look foolish in retrospect.
I posted this comment on a different thread yesterday:
“I had a plan to become a city police officer in 1986. I went through the process and ended up number 2 on the list of several hundred. The black people sued and said the test was discriminatory. They won, and the city had to start the whole process over. I could not wait another 6 months and moved on. The test was general education and how much of a study booklet you could memorize. I ain’t the brightest bulb in the pack but I lived with that booklet for several weeks and studied my butt off. I was never a police officer because of lazy, litigious, uneducated black people.”
That’s a true story, and the fatigue is real.
The Wall Street Journal executives figure they might was well get some eyeballs on their website for quick cash, like burning the furniture for heat, because they know they have no future.
“The program was such a raving success because so many Americans, men and women alike, identified with Bunker’s populist reaction against the liberal mind virus. Norman Lear, who had intended the opposite, was distraught at what he had done.”
It did have the opposite effect on me. In my case I remember Archie looking in the phone book for a lawyer, but insisted that the lawyer be Jewish...because they’re the best.
I’ve used a form of that advice for decades now (thanks to Archie) and continue to use it. For example as long as I’m given a choice of a doctor or other professional, I make damn sure that the doctor didn’t get any ‘help’ along the way - which means White or American-educated Asian. Ironically, though, one of the few times that I asked for a referral was for my knee. The guy I asked would be an excellent FReeper (maybe is even here), and he pointed me to black doctor who had replaced his knee. This doctor loved his job and did a perfect repair on me. But...he was getting up in age, so he likely didn’t get much ‘help’ along the way, nor did he need it.
I feel sorry for people like him because I do see others who perform great at work...but it’s next to impossible, now, not to pre-judge people, due to DEI.
That’s a JAP writing in the Neo-Con Journal. I don’t really care.
Baser=Bawer.
A fine analogy. So much of the "messaging" these days is for what will be short-lived themes.When traveling, I used to read IHT and WSJ bought in news stands in airport terminals and train stations, and read neither anymore. Ditto with Scientific American and some others of the same ilk. The youth these days don't read them, so time seems "short."
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