‘It’s like the Scottish Upper East Side’: shame and snobbery as American students are blamed for St Andrews classism.

Online comments reflect class tensions at the Scottish university between those from lower-income famili…

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Class tensions at St Andrews University as wealthier American students exacerbate social divides

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#classism #university #socialinequality

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✨ This fall, put that #GenerationalWealth to good use!

No one needs a fancy Starbucks drink every day.

Or a huge collection of knick-knacks that will end up in a landfill or estate/garage sale someday.

📣 The people w/ the most power need to step up! 📣

#Fall #Autumn #BucketList #Classism #Fascism

I passed the 11-plus, and grammar school opened doors for me.

Nearly 40 years later, I’m still unlearning parts of it.

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#GrammarSchool #11Plus #WorkingClass #Education #Therapy #Trauma #Classism #UKBloggers #LGBTQ, #LGBTQIA #Queer #MentalHealthMatters

Memo: Open Access, the Struggle Against Oppression, and the Societal Family Unit

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#Academia #Climate #Community #Liberation #OpenAccess #Science #humanities #books #classism #CollectiveAction #ethics #family #liberation #openScience #oppression #education #research

Instead of taxing Private Jets, this is what the Tories propose...

https://news.sky.com/story/long-term-benefits-claimants-could-be-banned-from-buying-alcohol-and-cigarettes-under-tory-plans-13591237

#UKpol #UKpolitics #PrivateJetTax #Classism #Tories #Poverty

14/15

The sneering needs to stop.

Mocking someone’s accent.
Looking down on their job.
Judging their clothes.
Assuming their education makes them stupid.

That’s not sophistication.

It’s snobbery dressed up as superiority.

#Classism #UK

Note: Brief and incomplete commentary on art and capitalism
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Capitalism and Violence-Customs
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#community #education #Empathy #HumanRights #inequality #classism #poverty #academia #degrowth #literature #Ontology #OpenAccess #Poetry

As someone who has worked checkouts in Retail the Self Serve Machine hold no horror for me, I prefer them. Is it that some people see Retail work as 'beneath them' and that is their objection?

It's grounding, packing your own shopping, like doing dishes.

#Retail #Classism

“… it’s not about making more money… it’s about keeping people in their place…”

- kanye

#capitalism #consumerism #materialism #classism #racism