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While I sympathize somewhat, I suspect (most likely due to my own biases) that there is a strong economic class component to this trend they note. I think it's
by noobermin 9y ago
While I sympathize somewhat, I suspect (most likely due to my own biases) that there is a strong economic class component to this trend they note. I think it's more likely that wealthier men from wealthier families are more likely to end up enrolled in college than poorer men or men or boys who come from lesser means.
Like everything in America, just focusing on ethnic or gender groups before class doesn't really work to reverse the more real disenfranchisement that exists in society.
- aetherson 9y agoOf course that's true (and it's the same for women: higher socio-economic status is positively correlated with college matriculation and graduation across sex and race lines). But it's always been true, so what changed?
- Caveman_Coder 9y agoWhat's changed is that while there are groups advocating for pretty much every group, poor white men are lumped into the same category as rich white men, and are seen as "not needing help" or being a part of the "ruling hierarchy" even though they are poor. I think that is what OP was getting at, that is, by looking first at race/gender, before class, you're alienating a whole group of poor white males that don't see themselves as part of the dominant "white male" narrative. They're struggling just like all the other poor people, but told they "have it good" because they're white, and this is contrary to what they experience day-in and day-out.