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Ah, so, it’s the privileged that throw the best tantrums.

According to a new study by the Brookings Institute, the bulk of violent college protesters hail from wealth and privilege, evidenced by the fact that they are enrolled in expensive schools.

Protests turning violent over conservative lectures on campus continues to rise and played out most recently at Middlebury College where social scientist Charles Murray and political science Professor Allison Stanger were attacked by an angry mob of students who successfully shut down their debate. Stanger required a hospital visit to be fitted for a neck brace after her hair was violently yanked by one of the oh-so-tolerant students. And according to the Brookings study, those students have got quite the privilege:

But one overlooked irony of the events at Middlebury is how they perfectly proved some of the points that Murray made in his book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, which he had been invited to discuss. The book documents the separation of a “new upper class”, raised in rich neighborhoods, immersed in liberal, cosmopolitan values, and educated at expensive, liberal universities. In other words, it profiles the students of Middlebury College.

Middlebury’s students are among the richest and most privileged in America. The average enrollee comes from a household making a quarter of a million dollars a year, according to recent research on universities and social mobility. As many students at Middlebury come from the top 1% of households (23%) as come from the bottom four quintiles (24%). The annual cost of attending is almost $64,000 a year.

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