'Yuppie scum'? In college, before dropping out, I took a course in the propaganda uses of language; one objective is to deny other people's humanity, or even right to exist.

In the men's lounge someone scrawled 'kill yuppie scum'.

Do yuppies even exist? No one says, "I am a yuppie", it's always the other guy who's a yuppie. I think for a group to exist, somebody has to admit to be part of it.

Of course yuppies exist. Most people would say you two are prime specimens.