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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 so little politically and morally evolved!




Oxbridge has never been especially diverse or progressive; there were riots against the admission of women: 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?)


LoL, which one? Probably Evergreen State College in Washington or UC Berkeley? These are like catnip for conservative pundits.




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