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Here's some reading material[1] which is basically a direct refutation of that claim. However you want to characterize what happened between 2016 and 2024, it's not nothing.

If you think the efforts were not misguided, I'm just wondering, how is everything working out lately? Pretty sh*t if you ask me.

[1] https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-lost-generation/

"Loss of privilege feels like oppression". I see the numbers showing hiring shifts, but i don't see any numbers backing up the claim that there was once an pure and fair "American meritocracy" that has now been "gutted". and this [1] seems to show that the privilege has not actually been lost

[1] <https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/what-does-th...>

Saying you shouldn't hire based on race, sex, or other immutable characteristics should be an obsession by everyone.

Hiring people based on their race is immoral and framing this as moral is strange. That’s where classical liberals, centrists and the right are coming from when they say the left is obsessed with DEI. I understand you think they are obsessed with dismantling it and that’s a reasonable view too.