Word: classism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Peabody Museum explores three aspects of life at 17th-century Harvard: negotiations of social status, rule breaking and religion, and literacy and the Indian College. Artifacts related to the serving and eating of food provide evidence of social tensions. Shards of dishes and tableware point to officially mandated classism; wealthy students paid double the normal tuition, and in return ate delicacies such as fruit on tables set with dishes, tablecloths, silver, and pewter, while the other students ate off of wooden trenchers. Although Harvard abided by a number of Puritan-inspired rules, students found pieces of pipes, mugs, and wine...
...racing dogs left the track with an injury—a proportion more than ten times smaller than were injured in girls’ high school softball in the same year. With this environment in mind, the proponent arguments for Question 3 seem grounded more clearly in classism than altruism. Dog racing—its once-pernicious impact minimized by the aforementioned regulation and adoption programs—remains entangled in a network of negative connotations, some of which have been exploited to advance Question 3 and other measures like it in the past. In reality, the practice has become...
...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,” Moses told The Crimson...
...When chatting about the blog recently, my close friend Rachel, who is melanin-challenged, asked, "What do they mean by 'white people?' I mean, you like some of that stuff, right?" As I waxed socio-economical on how the authors were trying to make a statement about classism and yuppies and liberal mind-traps (#62: Knowing what's best for poor people. "They feel guilty and sad that poor people shop at Wal-Mart instead of Whole Foods, that they vote Republican instead of Democratic... deep down, white people believe if given money and education that all poor people would...
...black people living in poverty and in crime-infested communities has caused black people to become the face of poverty in America. This face is often too ugly for others to bear, so what used to be pure racism against black people has morphed into a form of classism...