Entirely agree, and I've noticed in Cambridge how porters seem to have born the brunt of culture war complaints from students and faculty, whether its Dr Gopal accusing the Kings Porters of racism or students at clare calling for porter Kevin Price to resign for 'transphobia'. https://twitter.com/SalemLola/status/1323583020012548102

The site of ethnically and sexually diverse, but highly privileged students and staff going after predominantly white and working class porters, whose job it is to take care of the college and its residents is not only unedifying, but speaks to a wider trend.

The speed and complexity of social change and norms of civility around issues like race, sexuality and gender massively advantage the connected, mobile and well off over those who can be roughly classed as Goodhart's 'somewheres'.

The increase in economic and social competition since the 80s has coincided with a highly ritualistic form of social liberalism fixated on proper modes of address, subtle discursive norms, restructuring workplace culture - a discourse essentially closed to those not in the loop.

An awful lot of people who were already relatively economically and socially disadvantaged can now become social pariahs simply by standing still, their refusal or inability to adapt near instaneously to rapidly evolving cultural trends is treated as evidence of malice.

This is most marked in contexts, such as porters in a Cambridge college, where ordinary people are in close contact with (and exercise some minor form of power or influence over) cultural elites. But what is really perverse is that really faculty and students have the power.

So you see students calling for Price to resign for his political principals - the subtext? 'You don't want one's uncultured servants daring to become local politicians' Gopal is angry about not being called 'Doctor' by porters. Subtext? 'My servants are insufficently respectful'

In an egalitarian age everyone, especially elites, pretends to be immune from or outside of hierachy, but under the surface nobody is immune to the desire for, and competition over, social status.

Whilst there can be disingenous attacks on 'PC gone made' we cannot ignore the fact that advancing social liberalism has created a new arms race in soft social status alongside wider competition for dwindling economic opportunities.