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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Assuming the wealthy are boring, can’t dress, and don’t know how to have fun.

Assuming education is stupid.

Assuming real skills are about knowing how to change oil, rotate tires, and install wood flooring.

Assuming wealthy people are all white, depressed, and unhappy.[/quote]

Yes!  I grew up in a town with these people and it sucked.  [/quote]

There is no "ism" or "ist" going in that direction. Classism or being classist is an attitude against people you see beneath you, or less then. In this example, when speaking of class, we're speaking about the "upper class." One cannot be "classist" against the upper class. Classism is designed to keep the power of the upper class, classism denigrates the lower class. You may have ill-will or not like the upper class, but you cannot be "classist" against the upper class. Because as a lower class, you lack any power against them.

The best example I heard recently in discussing racism, for example, is that you can have prejudice against any race. You may "dislike" a race. But for racism to exist it's Prejudice/Bias + Social Power + Legal Authority.

So you may think wealthy people are boring/depressed/can't dress/have fun. That's a bias or prejudice. The attitude remains internal, with no action going anywhere because you lack any ability for it to do so. You lack the social power or any legal authority to do it. So it's a prejudice, but it sure as hell isn't classist.  [/quote]

Classism can be both ways? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_discrimination[/quote]

https://classism.org/about-class/
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