An Insanity Reserved for the Rich
Anti-Israel protests are a rich kids’ pastime — and you don’t have to take it from us: The impeccably liberal Washington Monthly has the stats to prove it.
The magazine found that the campuses where students most rely on Pell Grants (funding reserved for lower-income Americans) were least likely to have seen post-Oct. 7 anti-Israel protests and encampments.
That is: “In the vast majority of cases, campuses that educate students mostly from working-class backgrounds have not had any protest activity.”
With a handful of exceptions like City College (where it’s easy for local nonstudent radicals to join in), the only campuses to see encampments charge tuition of 60 grand or higher — that is, the most elite universities.
Why? Well, working-class kids go to college to have a shot at the American dream of upward mobility; they’re far less likely to waste time (and risk trouble with the cops or the administration) over a virtue-signaling vanity project. And they know their parents won’t put up with them skipping class for days to sit on a lawn and scream about Israel.
Well-connected kids from wealthy families can afford not to take the “education” part of “higher education” seriously; lowerincome students can’t.
For all the left’s screams about privilege, the sanctimonious mobs who were smashing windows, getting graduation ceremonies canceled and forcing classes to go remote were mainly composed of silver-spoon teens self-centered enough to run roughshod over their peers’ college experience.
Also, today’s elite schools propagandize endlessly about “privilege”: If you’re born with the “original sin” of being from a wellto-do family (or even if you’re just white), you’re automatically an “oppressor” unless you obsessively toe the far-left line. Seize the moment to earn your “Leftist Disrupter” merit badge and bragging rights at future cocktail parties.
Parents: You’re paying through the nose for mandatory “diversity, equity and inclusion” indoctrination that stamps out not just diversity of thought, but simple common sense.