It's not that every DEI advocate at Harvard/MIT descends from Boston Brahmins (far from it—the faculty and admin have diversified), but the institutions themselves carry that legacy baggage. The result is a perceived double standard: scrutinize and essentialize certain "privileged" groups (especially when they're minorities like upper-caste Hindus in the U.S.) while the homegrown elite class sails on with relatively little analogous critique.Many see this as a microcosm of broader elite hypocrisy in progressive spaces—using moralized frameworks to challenge hierarchies elsewhere, but not fully reckoning with their own. Whether that's "ugly" depends on perspective, but the parallel is hard to miss once you connect the dots.