Reply #3: a theory on the racial slurs angle: middle class kids in public schools [View All]

[yurbud]

Might see expressing racist ideas as being low rent, and lowering themselves to the level of ignorant white trash. It's part of the fear of falling.

Kids in a private school probably feel more secure as members of the elite (even if they are not), and so feel more free to let it rip.

As someone who attended only public schools, I was shocked when I went to grad school at USC at the casual expression of not just racial slurs but racist ideas by my very wealthy classmates. Equally surprising was when I would tell people I had briefly been in the military, they would react like I just said I was a bedwetter or something. Class consciousness is alive and well at the top, its just convenient for them toi convince the rest of us it doesn't exist.