Reply #3: The last paragraph sums it up well.

[canoeist52]

"For all the members of the middle class that have participated in the classist pastimes that once belonged exclusively to the rich, for all the former middle class that spent themselves into oblivion trying to be more than they could ever afford to be, it’s time to recognize classism by its true colors. It is, in effect, a device born of a system brought into being by an elite ruling class, and used to manipulate the middle class, itself a victim, into becoming a willing accomplice to that system’s emplacement. Such bigotry, whether derived from the shade of one’s skin or the size of one’s wallet, is eating away at the foundation of our society. The object of our derision should not be those who have been most adversely affected by our perverse economic system, but the system itself."