Are white middle class kids more likely to protest at g20 summit?

I don’t know if only middle-class university-educated people are interested in these global issues, but I think it’s pretty self-evident that the people with the most leisure to be able to travel to Toronto (or Seattle, Genoa, etc), are middle-class students. It takes a lot of money and spare time, something most working people don’t have in spades, to say nothing of the global under classes.

I’m interested in global issues and I’m not white but some of these groups are extreme.
I don’t think its usually people who are educated. I think sometimes some of these groups aren’t well informed so it always makes me wonder how educated some of these protesters are.

There are some groups that show up just to riot.

Most of the protestors are decent people that want to affect change. But then you have the core of miscreants that use the G20, Global Warming, or whatever other political/social event is going on to cover their desire to rampage and destroy.

I don’t think the hard core anarchists give a rats ass about most of the issues they protest, They just want an excuse when they start breaking windows, burning cars and busting heads.

From the protests I have attended, most people who are there come because their union or other organization does an effort to turn people out. I am a physician. When there are protests around issues my organizations care about, I work hard to convince my colleagues to come. I did the same when I was a medical student, and, prior to that, as an undergraduate student. I take issue with the question because it seems the purpose is more to malign people who care enough to protest than to actually solve a doubt.

@Flavio

That wasn`t my intention at all. I am a protestor and I am university educated. I was once middle class but now dirt poor. I was to busy and afraid of police brutality to go protest in the g20 summit, I would have been arrested for sure for no reasons.

I’ll say middle class kids, at least. I’m sure you have some middle class young people of colour protesting as well, these days. Except a lot of the orgs turn young people of colour off because of the cluelessness and unthinking racism, paternalism and condescension in a lot of them. There needs to be more intersectionality in progressive movements.

Many of the middle class kids that I know do not actually have to work excessively hard to support themselves, since they are hugely subsidized by their parents. This leaves them with lots of free time on their hands. Some play video games. Some get high. Some protest the G20. Most of them are as clueless as I was when I was a kid, and as such their protests can be regarded with the proverbial grain of salt. When they start paying taxes, many of them will become less global and more local.