Word: classism
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...would say that I would start with elitism and classism," says CCA-endorsed candidate Renae Scott. "Then I would start with racism...
That decision was what brought Wallace-Benjamin and about 75 others--many of them also parents of Commonwealth Day students--out to Brattle St. for a candlelight vigil on Tuesday. Since the school announced its plans to sell the property, the neighborhood has been attacked with charges of racism, classism and elitism...
Graham said the Commonwealth Day debate opened up a variety of questions about racism, classism and sexism in the city, adding that the council should provide a more practical forum than city elections to discuss these issues...
...Southern Baptist chaplain at Harvard-Radcliffe, I suppose I am more sensitive than most when the poor white laboring folk of the South are being derogated. Then again, as a Southern Baptist, I'm also too familiar with the human sins of racism, sexism and classism. I know how hard people must struggle against such prejudices and stereotypes. "Redneck" is not a helpful word in that struggle. It's the same struggle I must wage to keep people from calling me "chink" or "Chinaman." I hope Crimson editors add it to their list of racially offensive terms and phrases...
...more extreme fear among blacks was expressed in an Atlanta speech by the Rev. Jesse Jackson. "The tax rebellion is now being used as the new code word-like busing and Bakke-for racism and classism," he told a national P.T.A. convention. The revolt, he claimed later, may prove to be "the greatest threat the black middle class has ever known...