How highly educated people discriminate

Johannes Visser wrote an essay in de Correspondent about the highly educated elite, and how they discriminate and exclude people who did not go to university. He discusses phenomena such as pregnancy yoga for the educated and exclusive bars, where the level of your education determines whether you can come in.

“The highly educated are just like people. They form a group, to then look down on the people that are not part of it. In this case: the not-so-highly educated. Philosopher Michael J. Sandel notes in ‘The Tyranny of Merit’ that the elite values their university degree so much, it is hard for them to see how severe their judgement is on everybody that did not go to college.”

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