Response to "Pushy Yanks saved themselves on Titanic"

I've read the account of the Titanic, and know for a fact: that particular generation of first class people was exceptionally snobby. And class was everything. If you were first class and died, it was a free hero label back home. That's why they stayed on board. They were sensationalized by the press for such heroic deeds as keeping the 3rd class male scum off the lifeboats so the wealthy women and children could get on board without any problems. If the societally important people did so much as lift a finger they became heros, or perhaps by just existing on the boat. But the third class? What third class? Oh, that filth that goes groveling around in the bottom of the ship? What of it? Let it drown, there's no better way to decrease the surplus population. We just let them aboard to serve as ballast anyway.