Word: classist
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...glasses off. “That’s not our goal at all, “ he says. “We want to alienate everyone.” However ridiculous as this imagined scene may sound, it is the only way I am able to reconcile the classist content of PETA’s recent ad campaigns. PETA, whose Wikipedia page has probably been flagged for bias as often as the one on Scientology, is no stranger to controversy and the absurd. In their fight to protect animals, they have done everything from hurling paint on old women...
There is, of course, no way to know if the ad is real. It may have been a crass joke, or an attempt to embarrass final clubs by depicting a blatantly racist, classist, and misogynist member. Yet on email lists and around dinner tables, students wondered whether or not the ad was real. And, somewhat surprisingly, a near unanimity of 14 final club members, both male and female, with whom I spoke, said that they could imagine a Harvard senior writing the post in earnest...
...It’s not because I am hoping to catch a clubby guy, or because I have a date rape fantasy. I don’t go because I’m a classist, or because I’m particularly preppy—I may be both of those things, but that is not why I pay frequent visits to many a Mount Auburn St. mansion. I go because, on a Saturday night, there is more appeal in spending time in spacious lounges with people I’m likely to know than in an unfamiliar sweaty dorm...
...Just as the racist declaration of black inferiority had a profoundly negative impact on how black people viewed themselves and their own humanity, the classist discrimination against black people has had a damaging impact on the psyche of black Americans today. In conversations about what it means to be “authentically” black, people often reference one’s connection to the ghetto. In other situations, someone’s economic background may be checked—the poorer you are, the more legitimately black...
During Junior Parents Weekend in 1997, the Radcliffe Women’s Action Coalition, a task force of the Radcliffe Union of Students, launched a postering campaign against the final clubs. “Support Your Local Bastion of Classist Patriarchal Elitism—Go to a Final Club Party” read one apt sign...