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Not actually surprising to anyone since the supertext is that liberalism and leftist politics in general are the playgrounds of the children of the wealthy or those aspiring to join the elitist club. And that’s been true of revolutionary politics from the 1950s onward when the working class unplugged and the neo-liberal endeavor built the movement around identity politics, not class. And the kinds of people likely to care at the drop of a hat about a place they never heard of are not working-class people trying to get a degree in order to get a job.
So yes, it’s all an Ivy League thing. But if you want numbers, WaMo has the numbers.
Of the 1,421 public and private nonprofit colleges that we ranked, 318 have had protests and 123 have had encampments.
By matching that data to percentages of students at each campus who receive Pell Grants (which are awarded to students from moderate- and low-income families), we came to an unsurprising conclusion: Pro-Palestinian protests have been rare at colleges with high percentages of Pell students. Encampments at such colleges have been rarer still. A few outliers exist, such as Cal State Los Angeles, the City College of New York, and Rutgers University–Newark. But in the vast majority of cases, campuses that educate students mostly from working-class backgrounds have not had any protest activity. For example, at the 78 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) on the Monthly’s list, 64 percent of the students, on average, receive Pell Grants. Yet according to our data, none of those institutions have had encampments and only nine have had protests, a significantly lower rate than non-HBCU schools.
For one thing, despite the labored attempts to pretend otherwise, normal black people don’t care about Hamas. Why would they? The Global South nonsense is more elitist mouthwash detached from real people.
Out of the hundreds of private colleges where more than 25 percent of the students receive Pell Grants, only five colleges have had encampments.
Another factor of course is that the pro-Hamas riots were also driven by faculty involvement and the kind of faculty who push this stuff come out of radical departments that cater to students studying Lesbian Poetry in the age of Taylor Swift or Third World Marxism which are, in short, not likely to enroll working class students.
Update from the UCLA encampment. desperately need humanitarian aid pic.twitter.com/TAhOsKynuz
— Lyle Culpepper (@ShutupLyle) May 2, 2024
Does this indicate that in America, anti-Semitism is the opium of the elites?
well stated–I am using this phrase for now on: Does this indicate that in America, anti-Semitism is the opium of the elites?
This is totally unsurprising; it has parallels elsewhere:
Well over a century ago, Russian revolutionaries of the intelligentsia class were disproportionately the children of the elite – who knew instinctively what was best for the masses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narodniks#History
True indeed. Now they want to bring the same Marxist mountain of **** into our government. What is the difference between progressive and Communist? I can’t find any.
They brought Marxism into the US over 100 years ago.
That’s a good point. None of the kids in my SF Bay city whose dads worked for the railroads, etc., got into that leftist political stuff, back in the 1960s. Lots of stoners and criminals though 🙂
Who is the man in the video? I enjoyed the laugh. Guard towers, rocket launchers, SS uniforms… 🙂
Soyboy lisping wussy punk is doing the devil’s bidding . I think this punk needs to be sent to live in the jihad nations along with his compatriots who are soft in mind,, body and spirit. These are total and absolute racists. It is not ok to hate and harm people of different races because it’s the status quo and hip at the moment. If there are any self stated Christians in these antisemitic groups. here’s the news from Heaven: “Lord Jesus Christ does not know you. If you hate Jews, you hate and despise Yeshua Messsiah!” Cricital thinking is lost in higher education campuses. 2+2 does not equal 5 in reality but it is shoved down these elitists punks throats by commie professors.
The Occupy Wall Street garbage was also a “movement” of the upper classes.
In excess of 65% of the so called 99% were upper middle class with at least some college education and overwhelming white.
Most of those that weren’t “suffered” from some sort of psychoaffective disorder, which is polite medical speak for drug fucked.
In the Vietnam War era, the student radicals came largely from posh suburbs.