The agency created by the Civil Rights Act is soliciting complaints from white men, on video, with the Vice President boosting the post... while voting to stop collecting the data that measures discrimination at all.
Some entries in this archive require context to understand why they belong here. This one requires context to believe it happened. The chair of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency Congress created in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because Black Americans were being turned away from work on sight, posted this:
Are you a white male who has experienced discrimination at work based on your race or sex? You may have a claim to recover money under federal civil rights laws. Contact the @USEEOC as soon as possible. The EEOC is committed to identifying, attacking, and eliminating ALL race and sex discrimination—including against white male employees and applicants.
— EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas (@andrealucasEEOC) December 17, 2025
That is not a critic's summary. That is the post, with a video attached, from the government account of the person who runs federal employment discrimination enforcement. "You may have a claim to recover money." The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, cold-calling a demographic. Vice President Vance boosted it within hours, and when he framed DEI as an evil, the chair replied in kind:
"Absolutely right @JDVance. And precisely because this widespread, systemic, unlawful discrimination primarily harmed white men, elites didn't just turn a blind eye; they celebrated it."
-- ANDREA LUCAS, CHAIR OF THE EEOC, ON X, DECEMBER 2025
SOURCE: THIS PAGE, NOTE 2.
Read that twice, because the chair of the civil rights enforcement agency just asserted, as settled fact, that America's "widespread, systemic, unlawful discrimination primarily harmed white men." Sixty-two years of the agency's own charge data would like a word, if anyone were still collecting it. Hold that thought.
I. WHAT THIS AGENCY IS
The EEOC is not a think tank with a point of view. It is the enforcement arm of Title VII, born in 1964 out of the specific, documented, legally established fact that whole categories of Americans could not get hired, promoted or paid fairly because of race and sex. Its founding caseload was Black workers and women. Title VII has always protected everyone (the Supreme Court settled that in 1976), and nobody serious disputes that an individual white man can be discriminated against and deserves his day in court when he is.
But an enforcement agency has a finite budget, and its priorities are a statement about the world. This administration's EEOC has made its statement in three moves, each documented below: recruit white male complainants by advertisement, reorient enforcement doctrine around "DEI discrimination," and stop collecting the demographic data that would let anyone check the premise.
II. BURNING THE LEDGERS
The third move is the one that gives the game away, and it is the reason this entry links to two of this site's standing dossiers.
The commission has voted to end the collection of corporate workforce data on race and gender, the EEO-1 style reporting that for decades has been the raw material of every serious discrimination case and every serious study. Our Intent Standard dossier documents what that data is for: since the Supreme Court made discriminatory purpose nearly unprovable, the ledgers, the statistical record of who gets hired and paid, are how discrimination gets demonstrated at all. Kill the data and you have not ended discrimination. You have ended the measuring of it.
Our Jim Crow dossier closes on exactly this maneuver, a rule that "has not risen above race" but "has agreed to stop keeping track." The segregating states published their school budgets, and those published numbers became the evidence that ended them. The lesson was learned, just not the one intended: the modern version does not publish the ledger. An agency simultaneously asserting that white men are discrimination's primary victims and deleting the dataset that would test the claim is not confused. It is thorough.
III. THE REBUTTAL FILE
CLAIM: "Discrimination against white men is real and illegal too. The chair is just enforcing the law equally."
THE RECORD: Both halves of the first sentence are true, and neither describes what is happening. Title VII protects white men, has since 1964, and the Supreme Court confirmed it in 1976; when an individual is wronged, the law is there. What the law has never been is a marketing campaign. No EEOC chair in the agency's history has run recruitment advertising soliciting claims from any group, let alone from the demographic that files the fewest race-based charges in the agency's own records, while asserting without evidence that this group is discrimination's primary victim, while eliminating the data collection that would prove or disprove it. Equal enforcement reads the complaints that come in. This is generating the complaints, presetting the conclusion, and blindfolding the referee, in that order.
The Hill's opinion page took the campaign's measure this week, which is what sent us back to the primary record. The primary record is above, in the chair's own words, from the chair's own account. Sixty-two years after Title VII, the agency built to answer the "No Colored Need Apply" sign is running advertisements. For the other guys. File it with the ledgers... while ledgers are still a thing we keep.
SOURCES -- THIS PAGE
- Andrea Lucas, chair of the EEOC, post on X with video, December 17, 2025, embedded above verbatim; The Hill's news coverage of the solicitation.
- Vice President Vance's repost and Lucas's reply ("precisely because this widespread, systemic, unlawful discrimination primarily harmed white men..."): Fox News on the exchange, which carried both posts approvingly.
- MS NOW on the commission's vote to end collection of corporate race and gender employment data.
- The Intercept, June 16, 2026, on the administration's push to ease discrimination suits by white men; HR Dive on the commission's 2026 enforcement agenda.
- The Hill, opinion, on the administration's anti-DEI campaign, the piece that prompted this entry.
- McDonald v. Santa Fe Trail Transportation Co., 427 U.S. 273 (1976), establishing that Title VII protects white employees; Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII, creating the commission.
Write to the Editor