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...James K. McAuley??s editorial comment (“Friends with Money,” Mar. 8, 2010) was crude and ill thought out. The Crimson Opinion page should be in the business of publishing reasoned and fact-based discussions of important campus and world events, not anecdote and invective filled criticisms of our fellow students...
...McAuley??s piece is grounded in his belief that rich students at Harvard are consciously reducing the level of their consumption in order to demonstrate to their less wealthy peers that they are not immune from the current “economic hardships” most Americans are currently experiencing...
...wealthy, but I understand rules of basic human interaction well enough to recognize the downright offensiveness of James K. McAuley??s Mar. 8 editorial comment, “Friends With Money...
...article contends that spoiled, “affluent” students should not downplay their wealthy origins because maintaining a “veneer of more frugal circumstances” is “insulting.” Instead, in McAuley??s idyllic fantasy, wealthy students should have no qualms about showing off at every opportunity...
...McAuley??s proposal would reify class divisions and obliterate any chance of cross-class interaction. Dismissing the entire issue with a misreading of F. Scott Fitzgerald, a relegation of the “rich” to impenetrable unknowability, is recipe for disaster. Difference exists, but in situations in which its danger can be minimized without any costs—like adhering to social norms of modesty—there is no excuse to perpetuate it. Not even out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness...