OWS was disproportionately affluent young white males

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

79. Makes sense.

Women are more likely to get sexually harassed by police, minorities are more likely to get assaulted in non-sexual ways. Most people who have and need jobs are not going to be willing to lose those jobs by spending day after day at protests.

Older folks can't as easily stand the physical stress of prolonged protests.

So the people who can most safely protest in our sexist, racist society are white men, and the ones who can spend days on end doing so without seriously hurting their own lives are going to be the unemployed, homeless, or those who can count on generational wealth to see them through.

So was this simply a random fact thrown out into the ether or was there some point to this OP?

(ETA: Nvm, having read the comments, I see why this post was put up, and how it's misleadingly based on a single event, not the entire movement. Still, my points stand - it's a lot safer and easier for young white males to demonstrate than for minorities or women. Minorities and women risk more in so doing, and those of us of more mature years aren't as physically resilient as we used to be.)