Thought-experiment relevant (although of course not perfectly identical) to current campus protests.
Imagine defenders of southern culture camped out on the college green, devoting the vast majority of their time to scholarly rebuttals of the history curriculum's denigration of Robert E. Lee and John C. Calhoun & loud chants of slogans that favorably remember them. Only occasionally do participants yell epithets, some overtly racist & some referring to DEI, at Black students walking by.
question:
maybe I am totally wrong, but this whole campus thing is, roughly, a few hundred upper middle class/wealthy* students at a few elite unis
and it is a national drama ?
wht am I missing ?
*I just looked up the data for harvard, and iirc, roughly 80% of undergrads are from the upper income quintile
@failedLyndonLaRouchite@BenRossTransit The political opinions of the people I know from that social milieu don't depend on class background that much - most students are from middle-class to wealthy backgrounds but the minority who aren't are equally likely to be e.g. anti-Zionist.
but IF you are an undergrad at Columbia, THEN it is highly likely that you come from an upper middle class or wealthy background
now it is possible - I have no knowledge here - that the demonstrators are a non random sample of undergrads, and that the demonstrators are more likely to be middle or working class
@failedLyndonLaRouchite@BenRossTransit It's probably a representative sample, judging by what I saw when I was there in 2006-11. And, in turn, working-class anti-Semites exist in droves off-campus, they're just not as likely to be noticed as when an editor of the Harvard law review beats up a Jewish student.
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