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>Man, college towns used to be so much more violent! I was expecting they riot on diversity grounds, not for such prosaic reasons. Those ancient students were
by DeathArrow 4y ago
>Man, college towns used to be so much more violent!
I was expecting they riot on diversity grounds, not for such prosaic reasons. Those ancient students were so little politically and morally evolved!
- pjc50 4y agoOxbridge has never been especially diverse or progressive; there were riots against the admission of women: https://www.varsity.co.uk/features/15985 https://www.varsity.co.uk/features/15985 By 1988 this had diminished to resentful grumbling from Magdalene. (I'm not sure if there's even a UK counterpart to "absurdly progressive US university that gets mentioned by conservative culture war campaigners" all the time?)
- DubiousPusher 4y agoLoL, which one? Probably Evergreen State College in Washington or UC Berkeley? These are like catnip for conservative pundits.