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

The travel forum in DCUM is classist AF.

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.

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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.

Calling people "pearl clutchers" is a fine example of classism.

I feel like you don't really understand what classism means.

The definition of classism is prejudice against or in favor of people belonging to a particular social class and prejudice or discrimination against someone based on class. Calling people "pearl clutchers" most certainly is a form of classism by someone in a lower class against what that person perceives as a higher class. Members of a lower class can exhibit classism as much as people in a higher social class.

Examples of classist behavior would be looking down on people who do not speak grammatically correct English. Also judging people who are not well read in the classics , etc.

I don't think it has a lot to due with wealth. I think it is more about education and culture.

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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.

Most Americans have washers.

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

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.

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’.....

Anonymous wrote:Something like 80% of Americans have cell phones and 85% of Americans have washers. Just because a segment of people of whom you aware do not doesn’t make it the average experience.

Oh who cares, it’s a stupid example of classism.

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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.

Most Americans have washers.

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

I just googled it; 98% of households have washing machines. I agree; it's not classist to assume someone is in the top 98%.

Lots of people, including myself, in that bottom 2%!

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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.

Calling people "pearl clutchers" is a fine example of classism.

I feel like you don't really understand what classism means.

Does no one know what “classist” means? This is not a thread about trying to have class or being classy.

I think strivers worry about class a lot. We see it here all of the time, people trying to figure out the best place to live, car to drive, vacations to take, clothes and makeup and hair to give them a patina of "class"

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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.

Calling people "pearl clutchers" is a fine example of classism.

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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.

Most Americans have washers.

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

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.

You mean “pre-war”

LOL, no, pretty sure when meant postwar.
https://www.renthop.com/qa/nyc/whats-the-difference-between-a-prewar-and-postwar-apartment

LOL! A prewar apartment building is less likely to have laundry and other amenities vs a postwar one

Something like 80% of Americans have cell phones and 85% of Americans have washers. Just because a segment of people of whom you aware do not doesn’t make it the average experience.

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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.

Most Americans have washers.

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

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.

You mean “pre-war”

LOL, no, pretty sure when meant postwar.
https://www.renthop.com/qa/nyc/whats-the-difference-between-a-prewar-and-postwar-apartment

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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.

Most Americans have washers.

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

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.

You mean “pre-war”