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Re:Students suing elite U.S. colleges seek 'wealth favoritis... by rayiner on Saturday February 11, 2023 @07:06PM (#34757881)
The degree to which the elite institutions have managed to co-opt the left by playing identity progressives against economic progressives is both brilliant and scary. They've managed to paint adding some privileged, Ivy League educated minorities to corporate boards as progressive victories on behalf of minority groups who mostly don't even attend college. Meanwhile there has been zero progress on adding workers to corporate boards, which would do far more to advance the material and social interests of those same minority groups.
Re:Students suing elite U.S. colleges seek 'wealth favoritis... by tptacek on Sunday February 12, 2023 @04:19PM (#34767109)
On the other hand, Elizabeth Warren, the apotheosis of the elite institutional left you're talking about, ran for president on a platform of getting workers onto boards, and got absolutely crushed.

It's possible that race simply has more charge than class does, regardless of the axiomatic arguments people have for why it should be the other way around.

Re:Students suing elite U.S. colleges seek 'wealth favoritis... by rayiner on Sunday February 12, 2023 @04:47PM (#34767405)
That assumes people read platforms, which I think is incorrect. Warren got maneuvered by the media and activists into a "woke white lady with a plan" lane that just turned out to be a total loser. If she had campaigned on the worker stuff and didn't call people "Latinix" I think she would've done far better.
Re:Students suing elite U.S. colleges seek 'wealth favoritis... by tptacek on Sunday February 12, 2023 @04:55PM (#34767485)
Ok, but they didn't have to read about it? She talked about it a bunch. It didn't seem to light anybody up.
Re:Students suing elite U.S. colleges seek 'wealth favoritis... by rayiner on Monday February 13, 2023 @12:19AM (#34770414)
If you had to reduce each candidate to three bullet points, "workers" wouldn't have made the list for Warren, but trying to stab the leader of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party in the back with a cheap accusation of sexism certainly would have made the list.

Clearly there is a large constituency for class-oriented progressivism. Sanders wouldn't have been able to win California, Nevada, and Colorado, and hold his own in Texas, otherwise. What Warren proves is that adding identity politics to the mix is a losing proposition, even in the Democratic Party.