Bulletin: White People are Obsessed with “Taste” and It’s a Problem

“Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier.” -Pierre Bourdieu

Me, every time I hear the word “taste” without social stratification.

Over the past week I have read or heard countless times some version of the phrase, “There’s no such thing as good or bad taste.” What inevitably follows is a full-throated defense of one’s démodé attire and a call to wear whatever makes us happy. Every one of those voices: white.

It is…