Word: classism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rather than question whether admitting women to final clubs would actually correct chauvinistic excesses, the staff engages in a silly harangue against "classism" and the "old-boy network." On these very issues, the staff is hardly innocent. Crimson compers surely anticipate the "well-placed connections" that semesters' worth of duty provide. In fact, dozens of students each year complete the comp process, never to return to 14 Plympton, remembering their position only around resume time. And if there is any clique at Harvard known for not dealing with "people unlike themselves," it is the staff...
...course the classism of the Gap is not as nasty or brutish as the market can be. But it is classist and deindividualizing and boring and democratic and American. We get the culture we deserve...
...cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, extend the lives of almost no one, and take away valuable resources from vastly more beneficial, if banal, activities like prenatal care, will be cut. Rationing will become an open element of the system. But the rationing will move away from its nasty classism toward a more rational ageism...
...have tried to damp down sexism, racism, classism, veneration of old Harvard for the wrong reasons by laughing at it whenever we've seen it," said Moses. "I think we have tried to take each freshman on his or her own terms--male or female, white or person of color, heterosexual or gay, rich or poor...
That is what AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) is about, a group that is often misunderstood. It is not a "gay rights group," but an AIDS activist group that recognizes that progress on AIDS has been severely retarded by homophobia, racism, sexism and classism...