DEI isn’t dead — and a ‘lost generation’ is still paying the price



While some conservatives believe we’ve won the battle against DEI, BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere thinks that couldn’t be further from the truth. And a new piece in Compact by Jacob Savage called “The Lost Generation” only echoes Burguiere’s sentiment — revealing that what has been done in the name of diversity has stolen livelihoods and ruined professional lives.

“In 2011, the year I moved to Los Angeles, white men were 48% of lower-level TV writers; by 2024, they accounted for just 11.9%. The Atlantic’s editorial staff went from 53% male and 89% white in 2013 to 36% male and 66% white in 2024,” Savage writes.

“White men fell from 39% of tenure-track positions in the humanities at Harvard in 2014 to 18% in 2023. In retrospect, 2014 was the hinge, the year DEI became institutionalized across American life,” he continues.


“I had not really ever honestly thought about it this way, is why it’s such an interesting piece,” Burguiere comments.

“As the Trump administration takes a chainsaw to the diversity, equity, and inclusion apparatus, there’s a tendency to portray DEI as a series of well-meaning but ineffectual HR modules. ... This may be how Boomer and Gen X white men experienced DEI. But for white male Millennials, DEI wasn’t a gentle rebalancing — it was a profound shift in how power and prestige were distributed,” Savage writes.

“This isn’t a story about all white men. It’s a story about white male Millennials in professional America, about those who stayed, and who (mostly) stayed quiet. The same identity, a decade apart, meant entirely different professional fates,” he continues.

“If you were 40 in 2014 — born in 1974, beginning your career in the late '90s — you were already established. If you were 30 in 2014, you hit the wall. Because the mandates to diversify didn’t fall on older white men, who in many cases still wield enormous power: They landed on us,” he adds.

When institutions who heralded diversity lost a person of color, they would only fill that position with another person of color — white men or women need not apply.

“That’s just racism,” Burguiere comments. “OK? If you’re taking someone who is one race and replacing them with a person of the same race, you are making a decision based on skin color, that’s racism. That’s what that is.”

After George Floyd’s death in 2020, several news outlets promised to make a massive change to the color of their workforce, with NPR declaring that “diversity was nothing less than its ‘North Star.’”

“Shouldn’t the truth be your North Star if you’re a journalistic organization?” Burguiere asks. “If you’re NPR and your taxpayers are paying for your entire organization or at least a giant chunk of it, maybe your North Star should be America, right?”

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Has DEI already KILLED Disney's new 'Snow White' remake?



The long-awaited release of Disney’s new “Snow White” remake has turned out to be a massive disappointment, as ahead of the box-office opening, it had the worst Rotten Tomatoes score for a Disney live-action remake.

Before it’s official release, the critic score was 46%.

One of the top critics, Otis Henderson, wrote, “I had high hopes that 'Snow White' would make me happy; instead, this dopey remake made me sleepy and grumpy.”

While the professional movie critics weren’t pleased, the audience hasn’t been, either.


“Wow Disney, you truly are incredible. It took you three years, multiple rewrites, unnecessary CGI, and $209 million just for me to enjoy a comment section of a movie I will never watch. Bless you,” one YouTube user wrote about the trailer.

The film stars Rachel Zegler as Snow White and Gal Gadot as the evil queen, which has led to the remake coming under even more fire for poor casting.

“I mean look, I love Gal Gadot, I don’t think she’s the greatest actress,” Matthew Marsden tells Sara Gonzales and Jaco Booyens on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.” “But why do you pick somebody who is quite clearly more beautiful than Snow White to play the queen?”

But it’s not just the casting that the panel sees as a flop.

“They have dried up with any creativity,” Booyens says.

“That’s true,” Gonzales adds, “That’s like all they’re doing now is coming out with live actions of others like ‘The Lion King.’”

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DEI ‘makes the NFL better’: Roger Goodell REFUSES to stop woke initiatives



While President Donald Trump is attempting to undo all the diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives the previous administration forced on Americans, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is standing firm in his support for DEI.

“We got into diversity efforts because we felt it was the right thing for the National Football League, and we’re going to continue those efforts, because we’re not only convinced ourselves, I think we’ve proven ourselves that it does make the NFL better,” Goodell said in a recent press conference.

“So we’re not in this because it’s a trend to get in it, or a trend to get out of it, our efforts are fundamental in trying to attract the best possible talent into the National Football League both on and off the field,” he added.

Jason Whitlock of “Fearless” isn’t even close to being convinced.


“I wish he would point to an example of the clear proof,” Whitlock says, adding, “Give me something tangible rather than just platitudes.”

Steve Kim doesn’t just agree but believes DEI is itself “very un-American.”

“Here’s the issue, do all the DEI initiatives you want, put all the slogans you want in the back of the end zone, put it on the 50 yard line. Nobody cares. We’re at that point now in American society, we either are ignoring it or we have an incredible amount of apathy towards it,” Kim says.

“You can have a platform, that’s great. We can choose to ignore it. You can have a message, we can choose to disagree with it. But no longer do we have to pander and pretend that we give a s*** about whatever you’re saying,” he adds.

Whitlock, again, just wants “to see proof that it works.”

“Handing out jobs based on a color code and based on who’s sleeping with who, or who you’re sexually attracted to — show me that it works,” he says.

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Tragedy in the skies: Collision sparks debate over Biden's DEI hiring



A tragic plane crash in Washington, D.C., has claimed the lives of over 60 Americans. Now, we’ve all been left wondering what could have caused it.

The tragedy began when an American Airlines plane collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter that was carrying three military service members over the Potomac river in D.C., while the passenger plane was on its final approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

“There were a lot of questions as to what in the world went wrong,” Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” comments. “You have this American Airlines flight that’s carrying potential figure skaters on the 2026 Olympic skating team flying from Wichita, Kansas, to D.C., and air traffic control staff.”


According to the preliminary report, the number of air traffic control staff members was not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic. There were 19 fully certified controllers as of September 2024, which was well below the target of 30.

“Then, you add on top of that,” Gonzales says, “you have these new DEI initiatives and policies when it comes to the FAA and air traffic control.”

Upon taking office, President Donald Trump signed a memo that “orders the secretary of transportation and FAA administrator to immediately stop Biden DEI hiring programs and return to non-discriminatory, merit-based hiring.”

The memo also stated that “safety and competence should be the only job criteria for FAA employees, yet the Biden administration violated the public trust — as well as the law — by prioritizing illegal DEI hiring.”

“We just need for you guys to do your jobs so people don’t die in a plane crash,” Gonzales says. “It’s like, you had one job. I don’t care what color your skin is, I don’t care who you sleep with.”

“DEI kills, period,” she adds.

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Mark Levin: Biden’s DEI appointments RUINED the Secret Service



If there’s one thing that can be agreed upon across the political aisle, it’s that the Secret Service was horrifically incompetent on July 13 — and thus is an absolute embarrassment to the United States.

The Secret Service had one job — to protect former President Donald Trump. And the agency failed. Had he not turned his head at the last second, he would likely not be with us today.

Mark Levin is in utter disbelief that something like this could have happened.

“What’s very upsetting about this, though, is the more we learn, the more preposterous and outrageous this is,” Levin says. “This is a tiny local police department. Are you telling me the United States Secret Service delegated them authority for protection outside the protection zone?”

Meanwhile, the Secret Service did have a counter-sniper. So where was he?

“If you have a counter-sniper there, that counter-sniper, that’s his job to stay focused. To look for any other snipers or any other potential, you know, in the trees, on the buildings, and so forth. That’s his job,” Levin says.

“And now that we learn that they viewed that building as a vulnerable spot, and then we hear that for the local police it was a launching off for special ops,” he continues. “You’ve seen the video, the people yelling and saying, ‘There’s a guy up there with a gun, he’s up there, he’s up there now with a rifle.’”

Perhaps a good way to explain how this happened starts with the now-former director of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle. Cheatle was head of security for PepsiCo before becoming Secret Service director.

“This is a DEI appointment by Joe Biden,” Levin says. “One of the focuses of this director of the Secret Service, and she’s made it public, ‘We want 30% female agents.’”

“Well, I want 100% competent agents. This is not a game,” he adds.


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New York Judge DELAYS Trump sentencing following SCOTUS immunity ruling



It’s been quite the week for former President Donald Trump.

Not only did his debate against President Joe Biden send Democrats scrambling — the Supreme Court ruled that the president has immunity when executing "official acts."

Following that decision, Trump’s team moved to overturn the conviction of the former president in the Manhattan case, where he was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records.

As a result, Trump’s sentencing hearing has been postponed until September. While many conservatives are taking it as a win, Sara Gonzales remains skeptical.

“Part of me is like what else are they planning?” Gonzales says, adding, “They don’t give up that easily.”

“It’s either that or they see all of this imploding before their very eyes, and they don’t want to look stupid, so they’re like, ‘Yeah, we’ll just delay it, and then maybe people will forget about it,’” she continues, “But you’ve got to believe that they are completely scrambling to figure out what to do.”

“All of these bombshells they thought that they had are now seemingly getting totally overturned,” she adds.

Matthew Marsden finds it interesting that the liberal response to the Supreme Court’s ruling has been overwhelmingly one of fear.

“It’s amazing how the liberals went absolutely bonkers and said that the Supreme Court ruling was about Trump,” Marsden says. “It’s just about the law; it’s about the Constitution.”


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DEI Activist Goes Quiet as Dr. Phil Debunks Her with Simple Logic
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DEI Activist Goes Quiet as Dr. Phil Debunks Her with Simple Logic