Citations:playlistism

Noun: "the practice of judging other people based on the contents of their music playlist"

 * 2003 — Stephen Aubrey, "Adventures in Higher Education: iPod Envy", The Wesleyan Argus, 4 November 2003:
 * Forget discriminating people based on their race, religion, gender, or colloquial term for four-square, it's all about playlistism. That's right, judging people by their iTunes playlist.
 * 2003 — Leander Kahney, "ITunes Undermines Social Security", Wired, 11 November 2003:
 * Playlistism, Aubrey explained, is discrimination based not on race, sex or religion, but on someone's terrible taste in music, as revealed by their iTunes music library.
 * 2005 — Leander Kahney, "The Cult of iPod", Playlist, 2 November 2005:
 * This has lead [sic] to a new kind of music snobbery called playlistism. Music snobs amuse themselves by laughing at a colleague's collection of showtunes, or the hopelessly pretentious jazz of the goatee-ed guy at the other end of the dorm.
 * 2005 — James Hebert, "They're making a playlist, checking it twice", San Diego Union Tribune, 18 December 2005:
 * That survey was prompted by earlier, half-serious anecdotes from college campuses on the practice of "playlistism" – bias against people whose tastes as reflected in their digital music collections just don't measure up.
 * 2010 — Leonard Sweet, Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who's Already There, David C. Cook (2010), ISBN 9781434764744, page 100:
 * This will help combat the music snobbery called "playlistism" and reduce playlist anxiety and playlisting pruning to suit the musical tastes of others.