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If you want an alternative example, the same argument applies to India's caste system. If people agree that the caste system is correct, is it still classist?
by 8note 5y ago
If you want an alternative example, the same argument applies to India's caste system.
If people agree that the caste system is correct, is it still classist? I'd say yes, because it enforces the maintenance of classes, and assigns people different opportunities based on their class.
The substance of the opinions matter more than the consensus
- zozbot234 5y agoBut the caste system was explicitly based on the idea that people in different "castes" cannot possibly relate to one another. By contrast, one of the most recurrent themes in Victorian-age fiction is the trope that even "low-class" people can oftentimes embody supposedly-'elite' moral values and standards of behavior a lot better than actual members of the elite do. Thus essentially flipping the whole idea of virtue signaling on its head.