Word: classist
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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...
...raise its campus profile, hanging eye-catching, full-color posters that featured a set of attractive blond-haired, blue-eyed twins. A guerrilla stickering campaign, presumably orchestrated by other LGBT students on campus, quickly targeted these posters, calling them evidence that BOND was a sexist, racist and classist movement toward gay normalization...
...films of its genre, begins by touching on cliched yet interesting social issues, only to resolve them as quickly and sloppily as Trent Lott fleeing a Jay-Z concert. Writer Sam Harper, who also penned the similarly-lame kiddie flick Rookie of the Year, embroils his characters in a classist struggle that pits Sarah’s crusty upbringing against Tom’s small-time bachelor-pad existence. Love, however, conquers all, as it usually does in the hearts of Beverly Hills society girls raised to believe that “marriage is an investment...
However, the guests at these parties—especially at Harvard—are likely to be the relatively privileged who might have glimpsed the rural poor on their last community service outing, but for whom perpetuating those classist caricatures seems to pose little of a problem...
...Also, hip-hop, in spite of being a billion-dollar business, is still the blues of the working poor. And I can say this because this is the world I come from; the working poor are just basically trying to survive from day to day. I find it very classist for people to raise the issue about positive versus negative hip-hop because the same people who raise that issue don't usually discuss the death-baiting conditions which most hip-hoppers come out of. And most cats who raise that issue don't really have much to do with...