Unironically, I went to the kind of school where a student who stood up against the entire peer group like that would have been bashed. In fact, I saw and experienced this. And it patently was not a “rough” school…

Middle class kids can do horrific shit to enforce conformity and social norms… And now? Those “norms” are as here…

Edit: talking High School, here, not college. Little different, of course.