Sentences with word «classist»

How could the child of a slave, raised in poverty in a racist and classist society, love God so totally and unconditionally and ask nothing but the privilege of service?
College educated, Barbara speaks with a soft sense of classist euphemism that's far removed from Mavis's guttural speech.
So carbon tax advocates will need to propose something VERY progressive to compensate; unless you want carbon tax to be almost as classist as nosebreater elitist zoning.
«I, Tonya» is a meditation on upward mobility and the elusiveness of achieving the American dream, showing that systems are in check to prevent a true meritocracy, be they patriarchal or classist in nature.
The 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death is coming up this year — as is the 390th anniversary of Sir Francis Bacon's, if you're into classist conspiracy theories — and Rufus Wainwright is planning to mark the occasion by releasing an album based on Shakespearean sonnets.
But what you do here is make critical and classist remarks about how people have chosen to use and decorate their homes.
In keeping with its origins in traditionalist Spain, Opus Dei is quite rigidly classist and sexist; thus, university - trained people are segregated from others and men are segregated from women, who are given essentially housekeeping jobs.
It's not that I hate the book: it's that it symbolizes the modern evolution of casual citations of Michael Moore movies and easy reliance on simplistic conspiracy theories that I think gives over-educated white people a dose of comfort for the guilt of living in a racist, classist soc
Expats are treated as VIPs here; it's a very classist system.
«His language was offensive and divisive, using the same racist and classist rhetoric as Donald Trump and the other politicians who use these crises as a talking point to denigrate rather than use their power and positions to help.
(My personal feeling is this is remarkably out - of - date if not outright offensive and overtly classist, casting unwarranted aspersions on the trust and validity we should place in those who occupy alternative positions, many of which require as much responsibility and are of at least equal value to society.
But Cohen's shtick of showing the backwardness and stupidity of unprivileged characters is starting to feel lazy, not to mention classist itself.
Cloistered at home for well over a decade after a violent grade - school outburst, Moll falls hard for the rugged poacher Pascal (Johnny Flynn), much to the dismay of her overbearing, classist family.
Making Scooby a star in the same way Mark Borchardt gained a measure of dubious celebrity through American Movie, «Non-fiction» deflates its potential for classist vitriol with Solondz's fourth - wall breaking introduction of a film editor (Franka Potente).
An MI6 agent calls Nobby «working class scum,» and that classist insult reverberates throughout the film.
It's hard not to empathize with this troubled teen and his equally mercurial mother, but the writer - director undercuts his characters by wallowing in classist squalor
Craig Gillespie's (The Finest Hours, Lars and the Real Girl) biopic makes the assault on Kerrigan its centerpiece, but it also examines Harding as a larger symbol of how classist, sexist, and image - obsessed celebrity culture can be.
The young heir to a vast Mexico City banking empire runs away from the cold, corrupt, racist, money - driven, super-elite, super-rich, classist world into which he was born, takes a wrong turn down a wrong road, and finds himself stranded in a poor, remote, beach community where he experiences a love at first sight with an exotically beautiful local girl — one that will place him — and her — in grave danger at the hands of a ruthless drug lord.
Were these schools to be celebrated for their prescriptiveness over matters of student behavior and character, or should they be criticized as racist, classist institutions, not unlike the old boarding schools for American Indian children?
It does tell us that charter schools full of vulnerable students — students in crisis, living in poverty, or bearing the worst of America's racist and classist legacies — have discipline rates equal to or often greater than that of the Minneapolis Public Schools.
And too often, these closed systems mask a racist, classist institutional stance that says «keep out!»
This socializing process could still perpetuate racist or classist ideologies, even while it works towards makign students and faculty more self - aware.
The thing that classist dog owners seem to forget is why they like dogs in the first place.
The title of the show is attributed to English Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir Frederic Leighton's famous classist painting Flaming June (1895) which portrays a sleeping woman in a vibrant orange gown.
To decide that because the clients you're dealing with aren't wearing suits, you can dress down, itself strikes me as an objectionably classist / elitist attitude.
At the heart of this kind of thinking, of course, is the sexist, classist belief that «prostitution is bad» (even though it's not universally illegal in the US).
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.
It's not that I hate the book: it's that it symbolizes the modern evolution of casual citations of Michael Moore movies and easy reliance on simplistic conspiracy theories that I think gives over-educated white people a dose of comfort for the guilt of living in a racist, classist society.
Blunt accused Bryant of being a «classist gimp» after the frontbencher questioned why so many leading figures in the acting and singing professions had been privately educated.
Sacks exposes this myth as classist and racist rhetoric designed to blame the poor for being poor and assure the rich that they are rich because they deserve to be.
Some were classist.
Although none of the members are men, Kelly says they're certainly welcome to join Make Lemonade, as long as they adhere to an «inclusivity mandate» that bans «sexist, racist, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, classist or otherwise discriminatory language.»
Sadly a house is not so much a home anymore as it is a badge of honour, an ATM machine and a right of passage into a classist society.
Christ came to the people who, during that time, were not even allowed to give offerings to «god» in the temple: they were poor and considered worthless ~ it was a time of a classist society.
It's classist (for reasons you've noted), it's abusive, it's exploitative.
Why was Mr. Morris being such a classist?
«It may come off as classist to say this food sucks,» Mrs. Q said.
She added: «To call someone who works in public education as classist or a snobby suburban mom, that's funny.
Some have criticized Dr Sears as being «classist», saying that only the rich can be AP, those whose husbands make enough money to allow the wife to stay home.
For government supporters, mass media are guided by a classist prejudice against Lula (who is a former steelworker) and his alleged populist project.
For the first time in many of our lives, we now have a president who rose to office on the power of racist, sexist, classist, and xenophobic campaign promises.
Historians and classists have studied in detail the language of Elements — which was first written on papyrus in Greek — and how its text changed over time.
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