[Farm93]

Obviously, not seeing minorities and/or non-rich kids on campus would have been impossible in the early 90s.  Living on campus at that time as a member of both categories I can only guess that she did not meet me.

However, the basic premise behind my comment is that one COULD strategically spend all of their social time with a particular affinity group if that was a personal goal.  And then their experience would be different enough that they could then claim their Stanford experience and their Stanford friends lacked racial and economic diversity.

Oddly, Stanford's affinity dorms did create part of that diversity challenge, even for rich, white kids.  Zapata, Ujamaa and the others were great for giving affinity groups a sense of community, but that meant that most of the other upper class dorms had rather small percentages from those same groups.

I realize her summary of the situation fit a narrative, and the facts were not really relevant.  I still suspect her perspective could have been reasonable compared to living and working in major East Coast cities now.

In the end, I believe Maddow is now a rather rich white person.  Her experience, whether voluntary or not, does not seemed to have hurt her financially.  Blame Stanford, I guess.  ::)

[Farm93]

Obviously, not seeing minorities and/or non-rich kids on campus would have been impossible in the early 90s.  Living on campus at that time as a member of both categories I can only guess that she did not meet me.

However, the basic premise behind my comment is that one COULD strategically spend all of their social time with a particular affinity group if that was a personal goal.  And then their experience would be different enough that they could then claim their Stanford experience and their Stanford friends lacked racial and economic diversity.

Oddly, Stanford's affinity dorms did create part of that diversity challenge, even for rich, white kids.  Zapata, Ujamaa and the others were great for giving affinity groups a sense of community, but that meant that most of the other upper class dorms had rather small percentages from those same groups.

I realize her summary of the situation fit a narrative, and the facts were not really relevant.  I still suspect her perspective could have been reasonable compared to living and working in major East Coast cities now.

In the end, I believe Maddow is now a rather rich white person.  Her experience, whether voluntary or not, does not seemed to have hurt her financially.  Blame Stanford, I guess.  ::)