It’s fashionable to rag on Bernie for being all about class. But I think Bernie is right in that we don’t notice class issues nearly often enough.
Take racial issues, for instance. Spoiled rich brats at Oberlin, Yale, etc are getting tons of coverage because they have learned to throw around the word “black.” (I’m convinced that their organizers, especially at Yale, are not even black, by the way.)
In the meanwhile, our black students from South Side Chicago, East St Louis, Ferguson, etc have their MAP grants stolen by Governor Rauner, and how much coverage do they get? These are young people who experience real hardship and who are trying to get an education. They are being massively defrauded by the state but does anybody care? No, we are all too occupied with the inauthentic sushi lunches of the spoiled brats.
So yeah, Bernie is onto something important.
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