>So I don't know what it means to say that leftist professors are
>"privileged wealthy elitists" since most professors come from this
>kind of background.
Yes, and I'd just been thinking I should have sent a postscript to my earlier post on this. Since most academics - like most professionals - come from relatively well-off backgrounds (given the low level of intergenerational mobility), the proper point of comparison for left academics should be other academics, not the general pop.
Doug