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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]so, a question I feel I can ask you all, because this has been such a smart and thoughtful DCUM thread.

I am white and grew up middle class/flyover state/not connected, and without being specific, my creative work has landed in the (art field here) equivalent of the NYT. I went to a state school.

DD, whose side I am 100 percent on, went to Harvard. I understand that she grew up without money and will never be part of the rarified old money circles that DCUM is obsessed with; me neither! But wasn't Harvard supposed to put her in spitting distance or same level as these people, if not leapfrog them? Because of the connections and access it gave her alone? I mean, it's not like Ng and Larson are Kennedys or Bushes or something -- they are average people.

I guess this state school grad is asking: How can Larson "punch down" on a Harvard grad due to class? I understand that Larson is totally out of line; but I am not totally following DD cast as a *class* underdog.

I ask this honestly and without agenda; as mentioned, team DD and Larson is a bad person/bad artist: How is a Harvard grad a subject of classism from less-than-Harvard grads?

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Because it's not the credentials. It's whether you are smoothed over and learn how to talk/dress/act like these other kids. The ones who were groomed by their parents to fit in and make connections and succeed and all that. If you get to Harvard and still can't figure out how to do that, then you won't make the connections that would take you in and propel you up. [/quote]

^ And also I missed she went to HDS, not undergrad Harvard. But I think either way my point would still hold that it's not the credential, it's how you present and whether you can pass for one of *them*.[/quote]

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