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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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... [/quote]

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

Ok, two very different examples. [b]The first is not classism[/b]. [/quote]

Tell us why not.[/quote]

Most Americans have washers.

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

DCUM users are largely affluent, a mix of urban and suburban from what I understand. Many from outside DC area.   I’m assuming most visitors have washing machines.  No one is going to someone in a poor neighborhood and saying, flippantly, “ah, just throw it in your washing machine!”

Using the word “ostensibly” strikes me as more snobby than referencing a washing machine.  I happen to like language, and so it doesn’t bother me, but since you seem to have such a ridiculously broad view on ‘classism’..... [/quote]

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