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(informal, derogatory) To explain to a poor person (as a middle-class or wealthy person) in a condescending manner, presuming the listener's inferior understanding..
In this period of declining mobility and the American dream falling out of people's reach, rich people generally responded by richsplaining to them that all was well, that you were wrong about your own reality, things were getting better and you just had to sit down and shut up and lean in.
It should also be acknowledged that Trollope “richsplains” to the Canadians but not to his English readers, who come from the upper or middle classes.
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Richsplain means (informal, derogatory) To explain to a poor person (as a middle-class or wealthy person) in a condescending manner, presuming the listener's inferior understanding..
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In this period of declining mobility and the American dream falling out of people's reach, rich people generally responded by richsplaining to them that all was well, that you were wrong about your own reality, things were getting better and you just had to sit down and shut up and lean in.
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