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This provides some interesting perspective on why it seems some of the so-called progressives are getting a bit extreme so much so it alienates people in the center.

This provides some interesting perspective on why it seems some of the so-called progressives are getting a bit extreme so much so it alienates people in the center. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/opinion/elites-progressives-universities.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BU4.Nlnh.eZ1MEibgSKnj&smid=url-share

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used to teach a bunch of first gen and immigrant students at public universities—i can confirm that “the educated class” is a myth and the “extreme progressive ideas” they in reality do have have were rooted in their own experiences of struggling to eat, ie the material conditions of their lives.

The Daily Telegraph in the UK was publishing lazy stereotypes like this in the 1970s. Depressing to see the NYT carrying on the tradition