They're racist, classist, bigots who NEED & DESERVE our righteous opposition.
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I think it was more of a classist thing, frankly.
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But Brown denied that the policy had any racist or classist intent.
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But those rationales have the effect of being racist, ageist, and classist.
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I want to be clear: These passive assumptions were racist and classist.
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Many social media users criticized the commercial for being sexist and classist.
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This is called exceptionalism, and it's an ideology rooted in classist respectability politics.
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We knew it was going to be racist, Islamophobic, classist [and] history denying.
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But it's a classist stereotype that only poor brown women wear acrylic nails.
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It can buy us out of our racial privations and into classist privilege.
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Are standardized tests useful, or are they racist, classist and corrosive to morale?
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Yes, this is probably illegal and classist and bad for a fluid society.
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"Ross is an emotionally abusive, self obsessed, classist, intellectually superior PoS," Jamie Sykes replied.
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Rather, they operate mostly by mime and mimicry of obviously racist and classist rhetoric.
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" He also did a podcast episode attacking what he called Bloomberg's "racist, classist past.
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Gig workers are seen, with some classist disregard, as a problem to be solved.
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This isn't a classist knock; it's just something I noticed while living in Florida.
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Some said it was classist and sexist for the way it portrayed the main character.
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His ephemeral work — anti-normality, anti-materialist, anti-classist — had assumed an exhortative, prophetical tone.
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Raffaella happens to be virulently classist, while Gennarino is a card-carrying Communist and open misogynist.
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Prostitution is a sexist, racist and classist institution that harms those who are sold for sex.
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But the Trump administration's racist and classist policies are hastening the demise of the American dream.
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The group experiences the aftermath of a classist unrest that they were not there to witness.
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We live in a racist, sexist, classist, homophobic, xenophobic, and Islamophobic nation — we already knew that.
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But distinctions deserve to be made when the principles of clean eating are classist, elitist, and fatphobic.
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Which is to say nothing of the classist implications inherent in our seeking and micro-cult–joining.
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This included topics from brutalist architecture to Garfield to even meta-commentary about the meme's classist undertones.
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His wife, Beatriz Gutíerrez Müller, will not be the "First Lady", a term that she deems classist.
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Working alongside women's centers throughout the city, See Red tapped into the rising feminist and classist awakening.
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People see it as a classist mentality since it may restrict certain demographics or groups from admission.
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They also hold the thrill of an amusement park ride or, at their most classist, a horror film.
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It's racist, it's classist, it's mean-spirited, it's speculative, everything is taken in bad faith, it's just vile.
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Peloton has stumbled into a PR crisis over a holiday commercial that critics called clueless, classist, and sexist.
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We have this narrative of 'victim,' 'pimp,' and 'john,' which I think are all really derogatory, racist, classist terms.
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Sororities, at least the traditional ones, were precisely the kind of classist, exclusionary groups that feminists fought against. Right?
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I'm just trying to tear away at all of the elitist, classist, sexist marketing that booze has gone through.
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That is, by definition, an elite platform, and its rarefied stature is relevant to my discussion of classist narratives.
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"It would be a cop-out, and even classist, to say that Murtha was a natural," Ms. Hanley wrote.
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I'm also aware that the classist rhetoric surrounding gold can largely — although not exclusively — be attributed to white Western women.
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"There are racist and classist implications to arguing that those who don't have broadband just 'don't get it,'" Floberg said.
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Passing judgment values on different types of sex work contributes to stigma, violence and the classist upholding of the whorearchy.
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But opposing all mass-market, mass-produced food is elitist and classist — and in this particular case, it's silly, too.
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"People are free to speak whatever classist, racist, false, misogynistic, bigoted comments they'd like," the congresswoman continued in another tweet.
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Suddenly, the shows uber-shiny, money-pumped aesthetic and subtly classist, white-centric snark began to look a little sickly.
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What I wish my friends had said to me after my mom died The classist vilification of the Black Friday shopper
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It is sexist, classist, racist and designed specifically to prevent diversity, equality and personal merit from creeping into its inbred ranks.
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"The Hyde Amendment is a racist, classist and sexist law," said progressive strategist Rebecca Katz, the founder of New Deal Strategies.
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Other defenders of porn conceded that it was exploitative and infused with fantasies of domination, often involving classist and racist tropes.
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Her radical study explores the ways black women have had to contend with racist and classist assumptions in the women's movement.
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They are smart and resourceful people who nevertheless hold some deeply shitty, deeply classist, and racist views about poverty, homeownership, education, etc.
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It's based on a subjective and classist idea of taste — how can Anderson (or anyone) tell us what distinguishes "porn" from "erotica"?
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These attitudes about the barbershop as a place of yore, as a fading institution offering outdated fads, are both classist and racist.
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"Despite what developers may say, facial recognition technology has the potential to reinforce the racist and classist policies of prohibition," Jefferson said.
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Stop with the classist myth that sex workers with GoFundMes, CashApp, or wish list links in their social media bios are entitled.
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But the duo also represented a classist and often racist faction of the movement that declined to accept African-Americans as equals.
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But her focus on "our children must be able to read" rather than educating the entire population is a classist crock of shit.
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Turns out liberals aren't above calling out conservatives' supposed lack of education, a classist jab that doesn't do much to bridge the divide.
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Pauletta not only sides against her adult daughter's natural hair choice but becomes a type of villain, spewing homophobic, patriarchal, and classist language.
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Donors with their individual biases, which can reflect entrenched racist and classist ideas about welfare, will often prioritize those with more social clout.
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Saying that people are mumble rappers is anti-black and filled with classist, white supremacist values of what language is supposed to be.
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The theme that we abided by throughout the whole season is that tacos are the great equalizer in a country that is very classist.
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Cynthia sits in a way that's comfortable for her because she knows that "etiquette" is a racist, classist concept employed to make women subservient.
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In years past, media coverage of Black Friday has been accused of taking on classist and racist tones and of shaming low-income shoppers.
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Money (which goes to the till after transactions are completed) mediates our racial and classist interactions, which effectively become transactions when money is involved.
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" Jones, Bee's husband, denied that the opposition to the move was "classist or racist" and said at a public hearing that "We are not divided.
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"When I do an interview in W magazine, and they take all these classist shots at me," he told Jimmy Kimmel during a 2013 interview.
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Logan is an asshole who repeatedly spouts classist and racist insults at other characters, and in one particularly vile moment he sets up bum fights.
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" Similar criticism came from Zeph Capo, president of the Houston Federation of Teachers, who told the Houston Chronicle he found codes discussing women's hair "classist.
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"It was very apparent to me that the whole Bread Loaf waiter system was this outdated, classist dinosaur in need of a meteor," he said.
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When Travis Kalanick led his ride-sharing company down the dark path to paranoia, bro culture, and classist rantings we reacted by deleting the app.
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It's everything else on the ridiculously specific list that is causing all kinds of controversy, along with allegations that the bar is racist and classist.
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It's important as we fight these classist, phobic, and discriminatory laws to ensure that every person has the right to good resources and supportive representation.
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But so much of the stigma against flip-flops isn't even about the sandal itself, but the cultural and classist assumptions we make about its wearers.
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Per Match's survey, some (slightly classist) turn-offs: 81 percent of women and 68 percent of men are turned off by those who don't have internet.
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Ending racial, misogynistic, anti-LGBTQ, and classist power structures is essential to the future of this country, as is ending the enormous levels of income inequality.
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She has an ugly confrontation with one of her father's working-class friends; he hits her with crude sexual insults, she responds with classist cheap shots.
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It could be invoked as praise, but it just as likely might be a classist judgment, offering coded language for knowing one's place in the hierarchy.
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In doing so, they're calling attention to classist discrimination by law enforcement, which has harassed self-described Juggalos for seemingly no reason besides their cultural taste.
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The first push for the ERA came as an outgrowth of the women's suffrage movement, and it took with it that movement's racist and classist exclusions.
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Buzzy startup Peloton is in the middle of a PR crisis over a TV ad that was ridiculed on social media as clueless, classist, and sexist.
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The dress code has been criticized, including by Houston-area officials, for being racist and classist, as obscene clothing does not appear to be the sole focus.
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Its heavily criticized narrow perspective does make sense in the context of the insular, classist culture of Nick's family, who are largely poised as the film's antagonists.
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One of NYC's most diverse regions was over time reduced to a site of crime and destruction, a transformation facilitated by racist corporations and classist government policies.
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Lincoln takes the utmost offense to this — "Throwing a picture is classist," he argues — and immediately runs off to find Becca to tell her what just happened.
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These apps can reinforce assumptions people make about race and income level contributing to crime, and have been called out repeatedly for their racial and classist undertones.
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I don't feel there's much exploration of this that happens, and I think the intentions behind this censorship are questionable at best, racist and classist at worst.
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But that prevalence also goes down as family income levels increase, which shines a ceiling-mounted light on the ugly truth of oral care: It's inherently classist.
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As a community gathering spot, the rink felt less classist than a shopping mall but less intimidating than a church, and much less soggy than a park.
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"Shamila's experience of racist, sexist, classist assault is definitely not an isolated, nor a singular, account of unprovoked violence against black migrant women in Lebanon," said the group.
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But at the same time as they were being embraced by young Brits for their relatability, a classist resentment began to simmer in certain corners of the media.
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Trashman's timely brew of anarchism and violent classist war on the rich offered what fellow cartoonist Jay Kinney called a "hard-left fantasy" that appealed to counterculture types.
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The policy has since ricocheted across Houston and beyond, with many calling it another example of how policies on personal appearance can enforce racist and classist power structures.
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The criticism weaponized against Ocasio-Cortez has often been sexist, classist, and racist instead of an intellectually honest effort to challenge her ideology as a self-proclaimed Democratic socialist.
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We have a corrupt, sexist, racist, classist government, filled with officials who hide behind exaggerated images of fetal remains to justify their abhorrent attacks on women and the impoverished.
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But if those people pursue the same racist, classist, elitist, crappy policies of their white brothers and sisters, well, it's not really change we can believe in, is it?
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I don't mean to take Abramovitch's innocuous tweet too seriously, but there's something vaguely classist about labeling snack-smuggling as "tacky" and "desperate," even if that wasn't the intention.
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The problem is poor on one side and the rich on one side Or, as you suggest in the film via Baldwin's text, the NAACP was a classist organization.
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However, it wasn't met with unanimous public support: One popular telenovela star in particular was caught on video expressing anti-indigenous and classist views toward the first-time actress.
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"Sapiosexuality is a highly controversial term these days because of the ways it can enshrine classist, ableist, sexist, and racist ideas about what it means to be 'smart,'" said Powell.
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In the late 80s, the "crack baby" epidemic was a runaway media sensation that took information from a poorly-executed study and turned into a racist, classist war on women.
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The classist nature of Guadalajara's society is obvious to anyone who spends much time here, with the wealthy generally barricading themselves away from the rest in the most exclusive bars.
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The social values entrenched in our moral codes are so sexist, classist, and racist in themselves that it's easy to lose sight of when breaking them is or isn't justified.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's backside as she walked down a hallway went viral for being, well, a creep shot (accompanied by some classist criticism of her clothing), conservatives have learned exactly nothing.
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This under-planned, poorly executed, elementary level artwork that uses Black women and men as props and controversy starters is over-intellectualized by classist, utterly inept, pompous, and clueless curator types.
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Their presence in the film's first act—and their ultimate fate as gator bait—speaks to the classist and often racist climate disaster anxieties (and fantasies) that Crawl is tapping into.
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While the rednecks were pretty rough-looking, this is such a ridiculous assumption that I almost wonder if it's a half-hearted commentary on the irrational classist paranoias of urban liberals.
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Now, that is always tricky, because we are members of this system which we all strongly believe is racist and classist and doing harm to the families it claims to serve.
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This punishing stigma will continue to flatten the full personhood of all mothers until we eradicate the racist, sexist, ableist, classist, and heteronormative cultural perceptions of what constitutes the perfect mother.
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A snippet of the audio was originally posted to Twitter by writer and author and Bernie Sanders' supporter Benjamin Dixon on Monday who went after Bloomberg calling him racist and classist.
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She indicts the origins of the white feminist movement for its racist and classist treatment of African-American women and repudiates its goals of imitating the power structure of white patriarchy.
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There is also a generational failure: those artists and teachers who believed that sustained critique allied to aesthetic production could point the way out of a racist, classist, misogynist, homophobic wilderness.
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But when we laugh at the classist disdain with which Lord Grantham says, "A job?" after learning that Matthew works as a lawyer, there is no danger of us laughing at ourselves.
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"If they&aposre trained on historical data, which they all are, then they&aposre going to be as racist and as sexist and as classist as human society is," O&aposNeil said.
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While some locals argue that these policies preserve neighborhood character, critics argue they are classist: benefitting those who already own property at the expense of others, especially minorities and lower-income residents.
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Cut through the classist and incredibly narrow understanding of New York and it had a real value: It taught me how to have girl talk and what exactly a booty call text was.
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Yet look up Juggalos online and you'll mostly see shaming, fear-mongering, and hatred from the media and the public—much of which betrays classist attitudes, given how many Juggalos are working-class.
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For some, Trump's comments, particularly when he speculated to reporters prior to the event that "I would think that's their favorite food," referring to chains like McDonald's and Wendy's, rang as classist or racist.
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But while she generally agrees with Skiba's critique of the festival as being racist and classist, she does take issue with him claiming sole credit for causing Fyre Festival to go up in flames.
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Concurrently, the House of Representatives voted 238–183 to pass HR7, a bill that prohibits the use of taxpayer money for abortions and consequently reinforces the blatantly racist, sexist, and classist 1977 Hyde Amendment.
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" Tran said their mother taught them to undermine the biases and prejudices of society through clothes, using them as "empowerment—although an empowerment that borrowed from elitist and classist assumptions about beauty and identity.
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"Bushwig will not tolerate racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic, biphobic, femme phobic, ageist, ableist, fat phobic, classist, xenophobic, or oppressive behavior or language of any kind at our festival," reads the event's policy to attendees.
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Even as the rich try to dress down by dressing in literal tatters — and the rest of us try to get the look for less — there's something inherently classist about this fetishization of decay.
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A play about bad things happening to bad people, it laughs at characters who are almost certainly poorer, worse educated and less sophisticated than the audience it attracts, which feels callous and maybe classist, too.
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The prototype of such works is John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger" (1956), in which the ultimate angry young man, Jimmy Porter, spewed bile about a classist, hidebound Britain that he felt had betrayed him.
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He succeeded where others had failed in tearing down Turkey's rigid, classist system of government; sending the meddling military back to its barracks; and opening up the bureaucracy, long deeply suspicious of Turkey's pious underclass.
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Peloton is many things: an $8.2 billion unicorn, an object of envy among investors and startup founders, and a subject of widespread mockery for a holiday ad that critics called confusing, classist, and even sexist.
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Even Noël Coward, hardly a dyed-in-the-wool revolutionary, saw them as symbols of classist oppression: The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the upper classes Have still the upper hand.
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The First Purge ends with the none-too-subtle suggestion that the only way to prevent a racist, classist, authoritarian dystopia from coming to pass is by taking to the streets, ideally with weapons in hand.
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Abuse continued throughout her life, alongside microagressions and all-out snubbing from officials in the sport she would come to headline, and the sexist, classist American media that would ridicule her every step of the way.
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But in the fullness of time, the Flick archetype of female political ambition has taken on more nuance, with viewers understanding Tracy less as a villain and more as a creature of sexist and classist circumstance.
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After a Peloton holiday ad was ridiculed on social media as classist and sexist, a former Twitter employee, social media consultant, and angel investor, Claire Diaz-Ortiz, said brands need to stop trying to go viral.
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Its editor in chief said she'd worried because of the racist and classist reactions that your photos received in Vanity Fair — and yet your Vogue appearance was celebrated with the magazine's largest-ever social media response.
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Anyone searching for a symbolic conversation about the relationship between authoritarianism and superheroes, or a critique of superheroes as a predominantly male and classist power fantasy, might be turned off by Venom's fidelity to juvenile rudeness.
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Canada is an inherently flawed country that gets trotted out as the US's better, kinder, softer little sister, despite the fact that Canada is still pretty racist, sexist, classist, and genocidal, if only more quiet about it.
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"A lot of the argument around 'skilled migrants' is classist because it makes a distinction between the human value of skilled people and that of 'unskilled' migrants, whatever that means," says Mr John, who lives in Berlin.
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" The New York freshman added that "people are free to speak whatever classist, racist, false, misogynistic, bigoted comments they'd like," but that they "do not have the right to force others to endure their harassment and abuse.
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But the philosophical and psychological impact might be even more profound, offering a concrete, almost classist, rebuke to ultra-wealthy apartment buyers who sojourn in the city, enjoying its services and amenities, but often pay few taxes.
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I think there are times when I want the people in the restaurant to be people I can relate to, and not this classist thing where I have very little in common with the people that are dining.
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I don't think this is brutal, but it's a different kind of ... Am I being classist or something by part of why this book was ... the topic was so interesting, these are all college educated, presumably study humanities.
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It's not just bias in the workforce or in the products, it's bias in the algorithms: subjective and unrepresentative datasets used in machine-learning that mean we end up with results that are skewed—sexist, racist, ableist, and classist.
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In a 2018 piece published in Vox, Nittle wrote that the censure of Black Friday often takes on a racist and classist tone, with negative media coverage of Black Friday often vilifying low-income individuals and people of color.
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He says they all have a "shared language" that makes them good leaders, but before he's allowed to spout off any more classist nonsense, he's interrupted by officials, and makes a quick exit to deal with the situation in Egypt.
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Given that history—and the series' focus on villains who sway between charismatic and raving—it's easy to imagine FC5 as a game that sketches the residents and enemies of Hope County in the classist model of rural American caricature.
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The kind of racialized, classist mockery implicit in such a conflation of Chineseness with destitution continues inside the gallery, which features defunct ATMs taped over with makeshift "Out of Order" signs, overflowing trash bins, and a broken patchwork of a floor.
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The combination of Linton's Africa memoir, her tacky name-dropping hashtags, and her condescending and classist response to Miller paints a portrait of a self-involved and narcissistic woman with a loose relationship to the truth and very little self-awareness.
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The editor in chief of Vogue México and Vogue Latinoamérica, Karla Martinez de Salas, said she witnessed the racist and classist reactions to photos of Aparicio in Vanity Fair, and worried that the Vogue images would meet a similar response.
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You want low-income and first-generation students to focus in class and thrive in your elitist institution, then you better fund the Student Support Services (for undocumented and low-income students) and address the classist onslaught inherent in UChicago culture.
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This is reductive for obvious classist reasons but also because intelligence comes in various forms; furthermore, discriminating against suitors because they didn't spend four years accumulating debt isn't an identity or a sexual orientation, it's a limiting preference deserving of scrutiny.
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But Aarti Kelapure, a San Francisco resident who organized a petition in January urging the Met to "reverse this classist and nativist policy and remain free for all," said signatures continue to come in; the total is up to nearly 28,000 so far.
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"We face the real challenge to destigmatize domestic work, which will be difficult considering how classist we are as a society," said Tania Turner, a program officer at Semillas, a nonprofit that provides grants and technical assistance to local women's rights groups.
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Essentially, what we're trying to do is make art history less scary, less intimidating, less classist, and bring it to a wider range of people, and it's amazing how social media and the internet is allowing alternative art criticism and artmaking to flourish.
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" He went on to say of Fyre Festival, "It's classist and racist, and then they decided to park a bunch of yachts with models to show off in front of those poor people, going down there with all your Ferraris and bullshit and yachts.
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Billboard's decision to exclude "Old Town Road" from its chart has racial and classist undertones; a guest verse from Hot Country Songs veteran Billy Ray Cyrus still hasn't placed "Old Town Road" on that chart, despite its dizzying success on basically every other one.
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"Thomas," the long-running television franchise about a group of working trains chugging away on the Island of Sodor, has been called a "premodern corporate-totalitarian dystopia" in the New Yorker, imperialist and sinister in Slate, and classist, sexist and anti-environmentalist in the Guardian.
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In a January interview with the New York Times, Karla Martinez, the editor-in-chief of Vogue México and Vogue Latinoamérica admitted that the racist and classist responses to the Vanity Fair photos made her worry about how people would react to Aparicio's Vogue cover.
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And that goes for both categories of reactionaries—the Star Wars fan upset that the franchise's heroes now include (::clutches pearls::) women and people of color, and the misogynist, racist, classist, dark side of the populace that's always been present, wielding power in one form or another.
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When amateurism was fashioned out of whole cloth by Victorian-era English aristocrats, its ethos was strictly classist: snobby upper-class rowers didn't want to compete against unwashed bricklayers and factory workers, and concocting an ersatz Greek athletic ideal of no-pay-for-play provided convenient justification.
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The hardest, and likely most intractable, problem is to recognize the validity of claims — claims for recognition of hardship, claims for redistribution of benefits and burdens — when they have been cloaked in language that we rightly regard as indefensible: racist, sexist, xenophobic, anti-Semitic, classist, or ableist.
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By all accounts, they raised a staggering amount of money, and that was well before the the Trump Administration and its bigoted, white nationalist, homophobic, transphobic, racist, misogynist, ableist, classist, xenophobic, all-around no good, very bad agenda had had a chance to kick into high gear.
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The sequels are equally unsubtle about America's antipathy and hypocrisy toward even the humblest and hardest-working poor people, but they rightly shift the focus onto the people most targeted by racist, classist American policy decisions, and they shift the genre from home-invasion thriller to ensemble action.
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It's not just bias in the workforce (which is bad enough) or in the products (which is annoying as hell), it's bias in the algorithms: subjective and unrepresentative datasets used in machine-learning that mean we end up with results that are skewed—sexist, racist, ableist, and classist.
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Grammar can seem as technical and off-putting as math or physics to many people who nevertheless can speak, read and write very well, and while some books on language prey on readers' insecurity with lists of word-choice peeves and classist language shibboleths, Crystal efficiently punctures such snobbery.
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In finding their own avenues toward sexual liberation, these sex travelers are grappling with a practice that is traditionally colonialist, racist, and classist—and finding more ethical ways to travel while horny than soliciting sex workers in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, where sex tourism fuels local economies.
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"That's when the racist and classist stuff really starts to come out of these nominally progressive spaces," Georgas said, especially over concerns around "liability" for when neighborhood kids hung out at the church — questions that somehow never came up when it was middle-class white kids hanging around.
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But look to see the forest for the trees, and you'll find that inequality in the $10 billion cannabis sphere persists, with big money and special interests working to maintain the racist, classist status quo that allows them to benefit from a drug that was illegal for more than 80 years.
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This guy is why the art world is viewed as classist and not for people of color, working class people, and why you hear brilliant people say things like, "I'm not an art person, I just don't get it" — because there is nothing to get in art by people like Walker.
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However, I am disturbed when he makes comments that are racist (linking skin color to a store's clientele) or classist (saying that "scholarship" students have no right to criticize their college, or that "scholarship" students at a private school, not those who pay "full freight," should have the student teacher).
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They believed their "last stand" was a statement posterity would remember: the Temple's final position was that it was better to die together, as socialists united to the cause of equality and freedom, than be forced to return to the racist, sexist, and classist society they had left behind in the United States.
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But we know that some of these policies are inherently classist because that's not the way that workers experience Amazon if they're working at the Amazon fulfillment centers, it's a vastly different experience from corporate than it is in let's say a warehouse fulfillment center, a data center, if you're a delivery driver.
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There's the classist, sexist paternalism of early-Victorian-era London; the gall of certain handsome young sorcerer types; and the fact that even though she can't control her powers and has chosen to name her wand Porridge, everyone seems convinced that she alone can defeat the horrifying beings known as the Ancients.
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Prepare for a cataract of derision and self-righteousness should you dare pen anything perceived as too left or too right, as too pious or too profane, as possibly ageist or racist, sexist or classist, each "ist" word shot like a silver bullet intended first to take you down and then to wake you from your own beastliness.
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I was writing opinion journalism, and to the degree that I was reporting, I was reporting from the margins on how the media was behaving in reaction to these historic candidates, how supporters were behaving, how they were treating each other, the ways that gendered, racialized, racist, classist language was being deployed between supporters of opponents.
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Every time Instagram serves up some blonde Midwestern domestic goddess on the Explore page and you reward them with a tap of your finger, you are participating in an attention economy that is, through the dark art of the algorithm, continually reinforcing racist and classist ideals of what it is to be lovely, successful, and female.
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Sixteen-year-old protagonist Starr Carter grapples with the loss of a friend to police brutality as she attempts to navigate the incongruent parts of her identity shaped by a racist and classist America; Starr, who is Black, attends a predominantly white private school with a wealthy student body vastly unlike the kids who live on her block.
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Her taut British diction makes a one-woman play out of the orphan girl's love story, which starts out with all the young-adult tropes — the poor, good-hearted child abused by the spoiled, wealthy boy and his classist keepers, each distinguished by his or her own idiosyncratic cadence — but progresses into what many consider the prototypical Victorian novel.
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But even though there are plenty of trans and nonbinary lesbians, and plenty of cis lesbians (like me) who don't think that "lesbian" should be defined exclusively as "cis woman who's only attracted to cis women," our identity still hasn't been able to shake the sexist, classist, and anti-gay stereotypes of lesbians as uncosmopolitan boomer TERFs, sporting Tevas and cargo pants covered in cat hair.
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That means a world without princes and princesses and tiaras and palaces, which upsets a lot of people who love the soap opera and tradition of nobility, but if we could all just shift our focus from Pippa's perfect bum and Kate's impossibly bouncy hair for a sec, we'd see the monarchy for what it really is – an elitist, classist, sexist system set up to keep money and power in the hands of the few.
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Because they're not parallel tracks of study, because when we're talking about US Latinos and Chicanos, we're talking about people whose history, their political experience, their cultural experience is conditioned in some form by a state of colonization within the US. You just have to listen to the political rhetoric right now to know that these are communities that are still described routinely in a racialized way, in a classist way, and as second- or third-class members of the US community.
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