I was almost an English major...
This may sound inconsequential to many people, but it bugs me.
Ma'am, please, "racism" has to do with race. If this discrimination, if that's what it's being called, had anything to do with your ethnic origin, then that would be a perfectly acceptable word to use. However, judging from the fact that I am not the only person here baffled by your usage, I really think that it's inappropriate terminology.
I sympathize with Steve, as my older brother was born in and we live quite close to Reading, the Happy Klan Kapital of Pennsylvania.
I have no such similar beef with "elitism". Go nuts.
Beth