First, I said white male conservatives. Not white males. My point was you can discriminate on skin color or ideology, both are wrong. So here are the statistics.
So, 66.3% of college professors are white.
Half of college professors are women. So, approximately 33.15% are white male.
Only 10% of college professors identify as conservative.
So, that puts white, male, conservatives at approximately 3.3%.
How do those numbers compare the population at large...
In the population at large, 57.8% of people are non Hispanic white. About half are women, so about 29% are non-Hispanic white males. 60% of white males vote Republican. So, using Republican as a proxy for conservative, we should expect that they would comprise 17.4% of college professors.
So, they are underrepresented by a factor 5.27 fewer white male conservative professors than the population statistics would predict. The question is why?
Testing this theory at the anecdotal level, only 3% of all college professors at Harvard identified as conservative. That's everyone, men and women and people of all races. So, no matter how you dice things, the statistics support the anecdotal evidence, that it is almost impossible to get hired as a white, conservative male at most colleges. There are a few exceptions.
Business schools, economics, and STEM fields tend to be a bit more even in their distribution. On the other hand, liberal arts professors are overwhelmingly liberal. Perhaps your confusion was my distinction between "white conservative males" vs "white males".
If you know university professors, ask them how many recent professors hired at the school would fit the description of white conservative male.
A conservative white male and a black male should expect to be hired based on the merits, not their political leanings or their skin color and that was my point. When ideology get reflected in the composition of a faculty at a university it is a "red" flag that the school is discriminating.
If you run the demographics of the professors, you can see which groups are underrepresented. That does not definitively prove discrimination, but it is a good starting point.
I do think if you crunch the numbers of a given workforce against comparable metrics, you can find evidence of discrimination (the government uses this method in a similar way in testing companies to determine if they might be discriminating).
My premise is assuming that universities are discriminating against blacks based on the first post (I did not crunch those numbers) and the evidence is clear that they are discriminating against white conservative males, that both blacks and conservative white males are facing discrimination.
That could only occur because promotions are not based on objective criteria, but subjective ones and the result is the committee in power... white progressive liberals are hiring using subjective criteria or discriminatory criteria.
As a classical liberal, who ran a company with 42,000 employees, I would not have fired the people doing the hiring for allowing their biases and bigotry to factor into the hiring process. Meanwhile, while many universities have DEI officers looking for racial equity in hiring, how many do you know police their hiring for ideological diversity?
