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[quote=Anonymous][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, [b]went to Harvard[/b]. 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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She went to Scripps, then Harvard [b]Divinity School.[/b] This may have another negative against her by the Chunky Monkies[/quote]

Harvard is unique among American universities and more similar to the British model in that the schools are highly segregated especially financially.  For example, The divinity school is very poor, while the business school is extremely wealthy.  Divinity is also a very unique discipline- not necessarily considered academically rigorous in the way of theology or even philosophy but more about a religious calling and studying lives of moral sacrifice.  The college has the endowment but it is not shared amount the schools, although I think the divinity school gets bailed out occasionally since they have insubstantial revenue.  Divinity school students would rarely interact with graduate arts and humanities students at the college, for example.  It is not a similar circle.  That said the name probably opens doors and maybe helps her feel like she can play with the big writers.  Would we consider John brown to have a white savior complex?  This is [/quote]…where this whole area gets interesting I think. [/quote]

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