Thursday, October 23, 2008

Elites.

I've been meaning to do this post for a while. "Elite" had been quite the framing in right-wing circles these days. Really, it means liberal but doesn't sound quite so partisan.

Free Republic on "Elite" Women:

cherry:
being an elitist simply means that you FEEL like you are superior, not that you actually are

Cause Freepers are the ones that actually are superior.

CE2949BB knows a good opportunity for a strawman when he sees it:
A woman that has to count the number of abortions she's had?

dirtboy jumps on the bandwagon:
Someone who puts the arugula into her cart at Whole Foods without checking the price.

MrB goes far enough to offer a cause for the disease of eliteness:
wealthy libs haven’t had to work hard for what they have. Otherwise, they’d be conservatives.

Note he just dropped the "elite" framing entirely.

SupplySider also chimes in with insights into the elite woman's soul:
The "elite" women I know despise Ms. Palin out of pure snobbery. They don't know much about political issues, they simply despise the personal style of those they define down in order to define themselves up.
In similar fashion they hate Bush for not projecting the sophistication they imagine they posesss, and which they therefore demand in someone representing them.
Ironically, these self-styled feminists are purely emotional when it comes to politics, seemingly proving every patriarchal stereotype true.

I always hear liberal women saying "I despise Bush because he doesn't project sophistication."

jazzlite has a theory, and I suspect it somehow involves eschewing paragraphs:
I have concluded that they do feel above the masses, above the law and even superior to God and they do not want to lose their power at the top of the ladder. Therefore, they do not want a system from which someone without their inheritance or monied status, can rise to challenge that position...

oblomov will send us home today with a pointed:
[Elitist women are] the sort of high-priced prostitute that Elliot Spitzer
favors. The truly elite don’t even consciously regard themselves as prostitutes.

Women ain't nothin but hoes. If they're liberal, that is.

Well, this turned into just another "Freepers hate liberals because of all the liberal strawmen in their world" post. But really, there's so little to the "elite/elitist" framing, it's not too surprising we fell right through to the meat of the matter.

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