Janice Fiamengo's "Excluded Generations" on Substack (Dec 24, 2025), is a blistering, no-holds-barred response to Jacob Savage's viral Compact Magazine essay "The Lost Generation" (Dec 15, 2025). Where Savage delivers a measured, data-heavy memoir of betrayal — young white male millennials promised meritocracy but handed systemic exclusion via DEI — Fiamengo grabs the torch and sets fire to the polite framing. She calls it what she sees: a decades-long con job rooted in feminism, equity mandates, and anti-male propaganda that has deliberately dispossessed and demonised white men, especially the young. From an anti-establishment, truth-seeking vantage, this is raw polemic at its most unfiltered — furious, accusatory, and refreshingly unwilling to tiptoe around the wreckage.
Savage's Measured Lament vs. Fiamengo's Fury Savage's piece is poignant and evidentiary: he chronicles how, starting around 2014, DEI became institutionalised across prestige sectors (media, academia, Hollywood, tech). White men in their 20s-30s hit a wall — TV writers dropping from 48% to 11.9% lower-level roles, Harvard humanities tenure-track white men from 39% to 18%, Amazon mid-level managers from 55.8% to 33.8%. Older white men (Gen X/Boomers) kept their seats while the rising generation got sidelined for "diversity" hires. The result? Stalled careers, debt, delayed families, and a quiet resentment that fuels political shifts. Savage mourns the betrayal of liberal meritocracy without venom toward the beneficiaries — just quiet grief for a "lost generation" adrift. Fiamengo takes that foundation and weaponises it. She praises Savage for breaking the silence but slams his tone as too resigned, too forgiving. "Cry me a river, white boy!" she mocks the dismissals he's endured (and that many still face). Her core savage thrust: this isn't a recent "hinge" in 2014 — it's a 50+ year campaign starting with 1960s equal rights laws, exploding in 1970s-80s affirmative action, and entrenched as government-mandated equity hiring. White men haven't just been passed over; they've been required to be "head-and-shoulders better" to compete, while less-qualified candidates sail through on identity points.
She cites her own academic experience posting women- or Indigenous-only job ads, watching colleagues rationalise inferior hires as "innovative," and facing zero pushback. The real savagery comes in her targets: Feminism and white women as primary architects — smug, careerist, hypocritical beneficiaries who claim to "work twice as hard" while gaming the system. Older white men get a pass — she rejects blaming Boomers outright, noting many faced their own discrimination, divorce pitfalls, and pressure to step aside. The true villains are the feminist allies, mainly white, who built the machine. Society's gaslighting — false narratives of "privilege" justify open discrimination; white men are told their struggles are illegitimate while their forefathers' contributions built the West.
The human cost — substance abuse, nihilism, screen addiction, self-destruction among the excluded. Yet no public reckoning; instead, more demonisation. Fiamengo's tone is unapologetically savage: "The attack on white men has not been... a necessary sacrifice for the greater good, but a disastrous waste and warping of human dignity." She calls for resistance — lawsuits, dismantling DEI, grassroots education, cultural renaissance honouring white men's ingenuity and generosity. North America needs them to rebuild, she insists, not to apologise for existing. From a perspective sceptical of centralised power, captured institutions, and ideological capture, Fiamengo's piece cuts deeper than Savage's because it refuses compromise. DEI isn't a well-intentioned overreach — it's a "con of massive proportions" that destroys dreams, wastes talent, and erodes merit. Her fury mirrors the awakening in medical-freedom, anti-woke, or populist circles: when systems lie about fairness while enforcing quotas, the polite response becomes complicity.
The irony she hammers: a generation raised on colour-blind ideals wakes to find the game rigged against them, yet many stay meek. Fiamengo marvels at their patience, then demands they stop. It's a call to fury, not fatalism — reject resignation, embrace identity without shame, fight back. In the broader unravelling discussed at the blog today (fragmentation, purges, despair in architecture and culture), this fits as another thread: young white males, economically and culturally sidelined, become a symptom of woke forces dissolving cohesion. Savage documents the wound; Fiamengo rips off the bandage and says fight the infection. Savage's essay went viral for its restraint and data; Fiamengo's savage rejoinder amplifies the rage many feel but won't voice. It took a brave woman to say the hard truths that men are afraid to proclaim.
https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-lost-generation/ https://fiamengofile.substack.com/p/excluded-generations