Journal 9Carolyn Luby with her social and racial class is a white Caucasian female probably in

the upper middle class due to her allowance of being able to go to UConn. So with
the reaction was more on her being feminist more than her race or social class. Now
if she was per say African American or Hispanic I believe there would have been a
much greater reaction to letter than how it was. I believe this because the
comments posted to Carolyn were harsh yes, but I believe if she was a different
race or social class that it would affect the threats greater compared to what
Carolyn received. I believe if she was something other than Caucasian the threats
would be more life threating not like rape threats more like Im going to kill you! or
make comments about what she is instead of the letter that was published. No
people might not see it that way but from the article of The Power of Illusion it
states that We base racial categories on physical differences, yet there is no single
characteristic, trait, or genetic factor that explains race - genetically, we are 99.9%
identical. Like other physical traits, skin color is inherited independently and racial
stereotypes related to hair or skin texture, blood type, or intellectual, athletic or
artistic abilities are not related to skin color. So this shows I fighting argument that
could have been used to prove that she is not jealous of a certain skin tone of racial
background, but actually she is stating her opinion.
I believe if the student who wrote the president of the school was of a lower working
class that it would be received as a way that the student is jealous of what the
president has. Even though that is not what the article is at all about. As it shows in
the article Class and Power These lifestyles might affect factors such as
educational achievement and, therefore, future status attainment. This is
particularly evident within the middle class; upper middle class is considered to be
highly educated, wealthy professionals whereas lower middle class are the "working
class" - clerical and blue collar workers. A working-class person is more likely to
raise their child to be working class and middle-class children are more likely to be
raised to be middle-class. This serves to maintain class stratifications. With the
quote it explains what people believe they are and have a higher view of
themselves they might be in the middle class but are they in the upper or lower
level.
To be a UConn student I believe it is automatically some sort of privilege that they
made it into the school, for me personally for making it into UNCC I felt some sort of
privilege. A quote from A Primer of Privilege explains Be aware of the things you
can do because you're privileged. Be aware of their impact. Be aware of the things
other people can't do because they lack that privilege. Own your privilege. This
shows its okay to have privileges, but not allow them to go to your head, but owning
what you are privileged to is important because I am a student, daughter, caretaker,
etc. I have my own privileges just for my race, ethnicity, and sexuality but that does
not mean anyone who is not like my does not have their own privileges, each one
earns their own. I believe if the writer so happened to be homosexual the writing
would be a little bit of a different style, but the feedback would be open hate toward
the homosexual and the comments would be worse and filled with vulgar
comments.

I dont believe that Luby and her looks were really affected by going viral. She is a
upper middle class student who looks like a student, not a homeless person or a
fashion designer. Yes she probably got comments around school and snide remarks
in passing, but her outer shell should not be in control of what happened to her or
the comments that were posted.