Did you know the pro-Hamas college protests are a “rich kid” movement?

College campuses that educate students mostly from working-class backgrounds have had virtually no anti-Israel protest activity.

Daniel Greenfield (h/t Marvin W) 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

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