My friend called me elitist because I read the odyssey. It was for school and both of us had to read it.

When it was announced that Christopher Nolan was making a movie about The Odyssey I've seen lots of people on the internet who never even heard of it, which was crazy to me and I comment about it with a friend who then called me elitist and reaffirmed that I was when I said I read it.

They went on about how "not everyone had the same opportunities as me", to which I replied:

"Dude, I read in high school.", and by the way, I'm Brazilian, and it was a public school in brazil not some elite or even middle class private school in some English speaking country.

They replied "so? I never learn about it, my school never taught that."

"Yes they did, we went to the same school, we were from the same class. We made a whole test about it."

He just went silent and then said "whatever man."

God this was stressful. Dude got so much class conscious they forgot his own class lol.

(Honestly, I've seen a lot of these "my school never taught that", I don't doubt some of it, but now I wonder how many of those people just don't remember the class where they did talked about it.)