Submitted by Sam Tresler (not verified) on Mon, 2007-12-03 23:29.
That reads a world differently than the original post did to me. I’ve been accused before of taking these things to seriously, but I really see classism as one of the few totally unacknowledged prejudice points still around. I say unacknowledged – the other -isms are still there, but (we hope) are more recognized as issues.
My point, throwing words like poor, poverty, and lower class around when as you say, we are loaded with cultural capital, bothers me – hence my tirade.
That said, as I alluded I wasn’t attacking your life choice, I also wouldn’t change my time struggling in NYC trying to make things work when money was waiting elsewhere. Just the vocabulary used to phrase it. Probably one of those all to frequent times when the English language just doesn’t have the words to differentiate things – how many words for snow do the Eskimos have?
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That reads a world differently than the original post did to me. I’ve been accused before of taking these things to seriously, but I really see classism as one of the few totally unacknowledged prejudice points still around. I say unacknowledged – the other -isms are still there, but (we hope) are more recognized as issues.
My point, throwing words like poor, poverty, and lower class around when as you say, we are loaded with cultural capital, bothers me – hence my tirade.
That said, as I alluded I wasn’t attacking your life choice, I also wouldn’t change my time struggling in NYC trying to make things work when money was waiting elsewhere. Just the vocabulary used to phrase it. Probably one of those all to frequent times when the English language just doesn’t have the words to differentiate things – how many words for snow do the Eskimos have?