“Campuses that educate students mostly from working-class backgrounds have not had any protest activity”
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.
from the other side of town says
Yep. These protests are the new addition to the “Rave” phenomena.
Ernie says
Lyle Culpepper “NEEDS” to keep his entitled , insulting and self righteous mouth shut , and should do 15 to 20 years of forced -hard labor ( chain(ball)gang) and so make a positive contribution to this world .
Kobi says
Do you not understand the concept of satire? Were you dropped on your head multiple times as a baby?
Ernie says
hahaha ! Got you !
gravenimage says
Kobi, this is rude–Ernie is a staunch Anti-Jihadist.
That being said, you aren’t wrong–Lyle Culpepper *is* a satirist, and his video is *hilarious*!
Here’s more of his work:
“The best of Lyle Culpepper, mocking USA pro-Hamas students”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBeGvXEGyXQ
Ernie says
Thank you very much , Gravenimage !
John Smith says
Thanks for the link Gravenimage, which was grimly amusing.
tim gallagher says
The pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli attitude has been a trendy, very fashionable movement for a long while now and lately, demonstrating for the Palestinians and against the Israelis, seems to have become the grooviest thing around for the uni student wanker brigade and you would be a social leper if you didn’t get out there with your mates and demonstrate even though it means supporting the scum of the earth from hamas, who are surely as evil as any human beings have ever been. What a bunch of complete wankers these students are. They are far worse than merely being trendy wankers because they are willing to support the scum from hamas despite all those atrocities those vermin committed back on October 7th. I see these demonstrators as a disgrace. Morally, they may as well be demonstrating in favour Hitler and the Nazis when they support the evil scum from hamas. Israel is the only civilised country in that area of the world which is full of totally barbaric Muslims..
FYI says
Final exam for leftie students.Multiple choice.Answers provided.Leave your kefiyeh and pronouns at the door.
1}ETHICS question
“From the River to the sea” means to wipe out the Jews.
So what is the moral difference between a nazi with a swastika and a leftie with a keffiyeh chanting the same thing?
Answer:none
2}IRONY.can you explain it and see if it applies to you?
1.Yes
2 No
3 56.78
3}The keffiyeh,like the swastila, is an international symbol of…
1 Intolerance stupidity and total ignorance of the situation[Tick}
2 56.78
3 Peace love and respect for Jewish people
If you get 0 marks you may pass yourself.Well done college grad!
If offended by any issues raised ….go to a safe space and cry.
gravenimage says
+1
gravenimage says
Pro-Hamas College Protests are a Rich Kid Movement
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Often true. I grew up dirt poor, and while I did attend a few protests in college (no, *nothing* pro-Hamas or anything like it)–but my main interest was always in actually getting an education.
What a radical concept, right?