This article is from 2014? I’m having trouble downloading it from the link…
My kid grew up in a relatively egalitarian, liberal, progressive politically, active politically home. As far as I can tell, none of those things left him out of place in his fraternity. To be frank with you, none of my concerns while he was living in the frat had anything to do with being socially progressive- there were frat members who were Gay, there were frat members who were first Gen, several first generation American’s who had the whole “Dad arrived with a dollar in his pocket and we were resettled by an organization which helps political refugees from authoritarian government” type of experience.
I’m not sure what any of this has to do with the frat though. It was four walls and a roof for some of the guys- a place to live convenient to the lab where they were working- it was “built in friendships” for others, we did not meet any guys for whom the frat was the totality of their college experience- professors don’t hire researchers based on their frat affiliations, VC firms who come to campus aren’t funding weird startup ideas based on their frat affiliations-- it’s a living space without a lot of the emotions you are perhaps ascribing to campuses like Ole Miss. And to my knowledge- all the frats at MIT are racially integrated.