My one (white) friend from Mississippi attended that same graduation where I should have walked in because he wanted to see some people graduate, and though he never talks ill of people, he did mention to me that it pissed him off, to see all the (tenured) profs up there sitting so smugly.
He even used that word, "smugly."
I really don't think (tenured) profs nowadays get the feelings of recent cohorts of grads, who took on debt and sucked up the arbitrary behavior like they were supposed to, only to get an incredibly raw deal and have to start over after a huge period of their lives. There was always some of that, but there's more than ever, and the larger economy is even worse.
On top of that, the people who get into (tenured) jobs are so random, so often.
I once heard on social media some adjuncts calling academia "the Club," like some kids did back in elementary school. "Will they let you in the Club?", they were like.
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