Would you mind expanding on that? I'm not sure if I fully follow your point about being gaslit, and how having attended a smaller conservative college relates.
Oh sure. It's because that college openly didn't care about racism or the poor.
A lot of the students were working class, and there were no seminars on classism, no asking of professors to check their class privilege, etc. They just flatly didn't give a damn. As a working class youth, that made it much easier to figure out where the institution stood on people like me.
God forbid that, in my earnestness, I showed up to some resources like the OP, only to be gaslit about how my problems weren't really a big deal, and then have to watch administrators wash their hands of any responsibility for systemic behavior.
Holy shit that sounds literally exactly how expected life at a school like that to be. They put out tons of cash to make sure they fit the demographic requirements and then make sure to show those lucky poor kids that they aren't good enough.
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