Examples of classism?

[Anonymous]

What are some everyday things or actions that you think of as classist? Curious because the term recently came up at a meeting.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

Assuming education is more important than on-the-job experience.

Thinking rich people are good, poor people are criminals.

Thinking poor people are unhappy and stupid

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

Assuming everyone can pay for things with a credit card?

[Anonymous]

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

It's classist. You're an elitist snob.

[Anonymous]

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.

[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.

How rude of him ! Wow. I'd have been like "well maybe when you pay me more I can afford first class seats myself on occasion, dick wad"

[Anonymous]

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...

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

Are you kidding me? The DCUM pearl clutchers can NOT fathom having to drag their wash to a laundromat. *gasp*

That's for the poors.

[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.

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.