"I actually don't mind it, since I know most of the people on this board have not a clue about how these things go down."
Now you are sounding like a lib - how sure you are that "most of the people on this board have not a clue about how these things go down." Quite presumptious of you, I'd say.
It's not a question of whether everybody knows how these things "go down" - it's a question of whether one is basing their opinion on the facts and, yes, rumors, leaks, inuenedo vs. some that have a chip on their shoulder that presumes that these are kids of higher material worth and basing their opinion of the case on said dislike.
You have a anti-wealth complex because you've seen some richies get away with things that those of lesser means can't. Duh. It's unfair, I abhor it but that doesn't justify applying such a broad brush to these kids that overall we know nothing about or the wealthy in general.
It has also been shown that in the new topsy-turvy world of racial politics, hate crime laws etc. that the rules have reversed at every income strata...if you are of a certain race, gender or sexual orientation then you are qualified to have "extra-justice" meted out against the purported perp. This change is destructive because it is based now on a premise of group rights vs. individual rights. To grant a group right to one person is to deny an individual right of another.
This is wrong in instances as stated above - race, gender, sexual orientation - and is also wrong when applied to income levels.
There is a part of me, and I believe many others on this board, that agree in a dislike for arrogant, nasty or what not wealthier people and their reliant children. And some of those that agree with you are themselves wealthy. They dislike the swarmy ones even more because they consider themselves decent, law-abiding, hard-working people that are being maligned because idiots of their own income/status are giving them a bad reputation.
It's called lack-of-class and ironically you can have it at any social/income level.
I am quite confident that most of the members on this board, when watching a movie, root for the underdog. But most of the same members would also probably dislike to varying degrees Hollywood's tendency to make all rich kids, parents, athletes as complete a-holes or of all conservatives being portrayed as greedy, racist, homophobes. Especially when those Hollywood creators have become everything they caricature on screen.
Give up the class hatred - you don't wear it well.
Knowing the reality of how the system typically operates, one is very foolish not to take that into account when conducting their personal affairs.
These kids were perfect targets, and I don't know that they even were aware of it.