"Prestige" is a scam

[JustSomePreMed]

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Elite is sometimes described as "white shoe" but not white tie.

I don't think you understand what "white tie" is or denotes. Or that this poster was clearly joking, as no one would ever wear white tie outside of its designated occasions.

 

[Law2Doc]

I don't think you understand what "white tie" is or denotes. Or that this poster was clearly joking, as no one would ever wear white tie outside of its designated occasions.

I get that but "white shoe" is the common vernacular for elitism. As in white shoe law firms or investment houses. Seems more applicable than formal ball attire. Unless there's some new meaning of white tie that hasn't made it onto Google.

 

[IlDestriero]

So that guy from LECOM won't get a good job?

I didn't say that.
Work hard and always push yourself to be better and you can rise to the top. It may be harder from LECOM, but it depends on what your field is and what your dream jobs are.


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Il Destriero

 

[JustSomePreMed]

I get that but "white shoe" is the common vernacular for elitism. As in white shoe law firms or investment houses. Seems more applicable than formal ball attire. Unless there's some new meaning of white tie that hasn't made it onto Google.

Not that I would ever expect you to ever concede anything in the history of SDN, but just admit you're trying to make a tangential point at best. White shoe doesn't actually denote a type of dress (explicitly mentioned in the other user's post), whereas white tie does.

 

[Law2Doc]

... White shoe doesn't actually denote a type of dress (explicitly mentioned in the other user's post), whereas white tie does.

You are missing my point. When talking about elitism (the prior poster explicitly was), "white shoe" is the colloquialism commonly used.

 

[MarioKart]

Prestige of a school is certainly not a scam. I agree, it's not the end all if you don't go to a top school, but seriously, a prestigious school helps way more than it hurts!

 

[JustSomePreMed]

You are missing my point. When talking about elitism (the prior poster explicitly was), "white shoe" is the colloquialism commonly used.

No, I got your point just fine. You're just missing the fact that it was largely irrelevant here. You have a bad habit of trying to tell people what you thought they meant to say. Nothing about his post suggested he meant to use "white shoe" here. His mere mention of "elite" is not at all an indicator that what he said was inferior to what you suggest. The fact was that he was specifically mentioning a type of fancy attire (incidentally, largely reserved for Royal/elite people anymore).

He wasn't trying to work the angle you're forcing here. We know people refer to prestigious/elite firms as "white shoe". That has nothing to do with anything here, aside from an unfortunate sharing of a single word among two different phrases.

 

[IlDestriero]

White tie, white shoe, ivory tower... I smell racism.
I'm probably the only one here that actually owns white shoes. Just thought I'd share that.


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[Psai]

White tie, white shoe, ivory tower... I smell racism.
I'm probably the only one here that actually owns white shoes. Just thought I'd share that.


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Il Destriero

I got some white af 1s

 

[Law2Doc]

No, I got your point just fine. You're just missing the fact that it was largely irrelevant here. You have a bad habit of trying to tell people what you thought they meant to say. Nothing about his post suggested he meant to use "white shoe" here. His mere mention of "elite" is not at all an indicator that what he said was inferior to what you suggest. The fact was that he was specifically mentioning a type of fancy attire (incidentally, largely reserved for Royal/elite people anymore).

He wasn't trying to work the angle you're forcing here. We know people refer to prestigious/elite firms as "white shoe". That has nothing to do with anything here, aside from an unfortunate sharing of a single word among two different phrases.

He absolutely was "working that angle" (in fact in a thread about "prestige" that IS the angle) but if you really feel it to be such a tangent you probably shouldn't be so up in arms over it.

Thanks for the debate but I think your relentlessness on this minor aside maybe reflects more about your own argumentative "bad habits" than mine. You are debating a statement I made in passing that frankly wasn't even an inaccurate statement or unrelated to the concepts of prestige or elitism. Sorry I somehow got inside your brain so badly that a mere "white shoe" reference got such a response. 🙂 Good luck with that.

 

[Law2Doc]

I got some white af 1s

I own a white tie.

 

[ortnakas]

Deleted mostly because the quote feature is refusing to work on my phone which makes my comeback not funny.

 

[El-Rami]

Actually @JustSomePreMed was right. I was just making a sarcastic response about how maybe dressing in white tie will convince people that you're rich and thus worthy of an elite residency. The comment about the white bucks was indeed out of the blue, and it was mildly entertaining to see how a simple post could cause a minor argument.

 

[JustSomePreMed]

He absolutely was "working that angle" (in fact in a thread about "prestige" that IS the angle) but if you really feel it to be such a tangent you probably shouldn't be so up in arms over it.

Thanks for the debate but I think your relentlessness on this minor aside maybe reflects more about your own argumentative "bad habits" than mine. You are debating a statement I made in passing that frankly wasn't even an inaccurate statement or unrelated to the concepts of prestige or elitism. Sorry I somehow got inside your brain so badly that a mere "white shoe" reference got such a response. 🙂 Good luck with that.

I accept your apology.

 

[sliceofbread136]

Smh, can't even get quoting right

 

[Law2Doc]

I accept your apology.

🙂

 

[medic86]

I got some white af 1s

You beat me to it!

 

[IlDestriero]

Dress shoes, not tennis shoes...


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Il Destriero