Minor irritant
Sep. 25th, 2007 11:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annwfynFor some odd reason I'm beginning to really dislike the word 'classist'.
I'm not sure why, but I think it's because it strikes me as a silly word, and is furthermore symptomatic of a strange 21st century urge to turn all forms of unreasonable social prejudice into 'isms'.
What is wrong with words like 'snobbery' or 'social prejudice'? Why the hell does everything have to have its own goddamn 'ism'? And is the addition of an 'ism' a blatant piece of emotional manipulation to somehow add weight, to make class prejudice somehow on the same level as 'racism' (which has connotations of KKK members burning crosses) or 'sexism' (with its own dramatic images)?
Gah.
Stupid, stupid not-word. Stupid exaggerated evils of today's world we live in.
I'm not sure why, but I think it's because it strikes me as a silly word, and is furthermore symptomatic of a strange 21st century urge to turn all forms of unreasonable social prejudice into 'isms'.
What is wrong with words like 'snobbery' or 'social prejudice'? Why the hell does everything have to have its own goddamn 'ism'? And is the addition of an 'ism' a blatant piece of emotional manipulation to somehow add weight, to make class prejudice somehow on the same level as 'racism' (which has connotations of KKK members burning crosses) or 'sexism' (with its own dramatic images)?
Gah.
Stupid, stupid not-word. Stupid exaggerated evils of today's world we live in.
