Examples of classism?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I see it here on DCUM all the time...casually assuming everyone lives like you do. Example on the laundry thread... "It's so easy! Just throw it in the washer!"... never thinking that some people don't have a washer/dryer in their home. Little things like that...

Yep. Or how "it's so inexpensive to travel around Europe." No, it's not.

Ok, two very different examples. The first is not classism.

Tell us why not.

Different poster, but I live in the Midwest and the vast majority of people have a washer or if they live in an apartment complex, have a communal one.

Typical midwestern answer.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Making fun of chain restaurants.
Making fun of vacation spots like Branson, MO, or Myrtle Beach, SC.

Chain restaurants are suburban, not a classist thing

Making fun of the suburbs is also classist.

Wrong.

Making fun of the burbs is misguided elitist snobbery. Plenty of wealthy people with far more class in the burbs than the city wannabe snobs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Making fun of chain restaurants.
Making fun of vacation spots like Branson, MO, or Myrtle Beach, SC.

Chain restaurants are suburban, not a classist thing

Making fun of the suburbs is also classist.

Wrong.

Making fun of the burbs is misguided elitist snobbery. Plenty of wealthy people with far more class in the burbs than the city wannabe snobs.

Hi suburbanite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Making fun of chain restaurants.
Making fun of vacation spots like Branson, MO, or Myrtle Beach, SC.

Chain restaurants are suburban, not a classist thing

Making fun of the suburbs is also classist.

Wrong.

Making fun of the burbs is misguided elitist snobbery. Plenty of wealthy people with far more class in the burbs than the city wannabe snobs.

So you're being snobby by equating class with wealth. See how that works?

[Anonymous]

Agree, most of these examples are snobbishness and bad behaviour.
To show class you need to rise above the occasion to humiliate someone and be gracious and diplomatic, well behaved, articulate. Real classy people know this

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Making fun of chain restaurants.
Making fun of vacation spots like Branson, MO, or Myrtle Beach, SC.

Chain restaurants are suburban, not a classist thing

Making fun of the suburbs is also classist.

Wrong.

Making fun of the burbs is misguided elitist snobbery. Plenty of wealthy people with far more class in the burbs than the city wannabe snobs.

Haha, methinks the suburb-dweller wants to be the one who wields the classist sword, not the one who receives it. Too bad!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree, most of these examples are snobbishness and bad behaviour.
To show class you need to rise above the occasion to humiliate someone and be gracious and diplomatic, well behaved, articulate. Real classy people know this

Can you read? The OP asked about being classist, not about being classy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I see it here on DCUM all the time...casually assuming everyone lives like you do. Example on the laundry thread... "It's so easy! Just throw it in the washer!"... never thinking that some people don't have a washer/dryer in their home. Little things like that...

Yep. Or how "it's so inexpensive to travel around Europe." No, it's not.

Ok, two very different examples. The first is not classism.

Tell us why not.

Most Americans have washers.

What about “google it” ?? Is that classist? More Americans have a washing machine than a device w/ an internet connection.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I see it here on DCUM all the time...casually assuming everyone lives like you do. Example on the laundry thread... "It's so easy! Just throw it in the washer!"... never thinking that some people don't have a washer/dryer in their home. Little things like that...

Yep. Or how "it's so inexpensive to travel around Europe." No, it's not.

Ok, two very different examples. The first is not classism.

Tell us why not.

Most Americans have washers.

What about “google it” ?? Is that classist? More Americans have a washing machine than a device w/ an internet connection.

This is ostensibly an URBAN website. All the yahoos in flyover land who post here don't think about the people in east coast cities who live in postwar apartment buildings. Plenty of people in DC don't have washers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Making fun of chain restaurants.
Making fun of vacation spots like Branson, MO, or Myrtle Beach, SC.

Chain restaurants are suburban, not a classist thing

Making fun of the suburbs is also classist.

Wrong.

Making fun of the burbs is misguided elitist snobbery. Plenty of wealthy people with far more class in the burbs than the city wannabe snobs.

Haha, methinks the suburb-dweller wants to be the one who wields the classist sword, not the one who receives it. Too bad!

FFS. You’re both morons. Move it along.

[Anonymous]

Classism has to do with wealth---or the perception of wealth---coupled with how a person carries himself.

Living in the city isn't inherently classy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When my boss told me to get him and his family first class tickets for a trip and I finally went to him, stressed, because I couldn't find three seats next to each other. He bent over from laughing so hard as he explained they're labeled every-other. Then I heard him laughing as he told other partners how I hadn't known that.

Couldn’t you see that they were next to each other on the seat map of the plane?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Classism has to do with wealth---or the perception of wealth---coupled with how a person carries himself.

Living in the city isn't inherently classy.

Do you mean living on 8 acres?
Huge house with servants

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Classism has to do with wealth---or the perception of wealth---coupled with how a person carries himself.

Living in the city isn't inherently classy.

That's because no one is talking about being classy ffs.


class·ism

prejudice against or in favor of people belonging to a particular social class.
"they are told to be on watch against the evils of classism"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Making fun of chain restaurants.
Making fun of vacation spots like Branson, MO, or Myrtle Beach, SC.

Chain restaurants are suburban, not a classist thing

Making fun of the suburbs is also classist.

I’m not making fun of them. I grew up in the suburbs!