The concept of reverse snobbery is every bit as bankrupt as the idea of reverse racism: a rhetorical device with no analytic base. It cannot be practiced as it cannot describe actual conditions. To imagine that snobbery can simply be conceived of "in reverse" is to imagine that the antagonism between the classes, and the forces available to prosecute that antagonism, are equivocal — and that these antagonistic forces could be reversed simply through choice.
There could be no greater misunderstanding of the basic idea of social class than that present in the term.
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