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I just don't think it's a good idea to so closely relate taste and identity. And let's not even get into the "first-rate brain" stuff, ay yi yi.

• xapata 9y ago
  There was a bit of tongue-in-cheek tone to the article, as common in the New Yorker. I wouldn't read the first-rate brain bit as you did. It was a joke.
  • umanwizard 9y ago
    If you assume the New Yorker is joking every time they engage in smug class signaling, it does become much easier to stomach. But I'm not the person you're responding to and it really didn't sound like a joke to me either.
    • xapata 9y ago
      Usually, describing oneself as being second-rate is an attempt at self-deprecating humor.