That elitism is kind of a creeping elitism, but I don't think it's badly intended.
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I, too, was pretty appalled by her stilettos — they oozed of elitism, the same elitism both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton would get reamed for in the press.
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The conservatism and elitism of the superhero genre is most starkly revealed when a superhero story rejects conservatism and elitism — and in the process, stops being a superhero story.
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It was not merely elitism that the New Right is reacting against, but an elitism that had the secret backing of the West, through its various newspapers, nongovernmental organizations and think tanks.
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So now that Liberal Economic Elitism is dead, what next?
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The most powerful engine of elitism is the European Union.
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The whole sketch just reeked of misogyny and white elitism.
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Label it just another example of media arrogance and elitism.
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Undoubtedly, Donald Trump is also a product of coastal elitism.
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Bloomberg has one big liability: It's not wealth — It's elitism.
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He passionately defended classical music from the stigma of elitism.
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" Miller tagged Clinton as "the embodiment of globalism" and "financial elitism.
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The elitism in the metal community gets pretty tiring as well.
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The quality of your elitism knocks the socks off your competitors.
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Kolb became the figurehead of another great surge of anti-elitism.
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Crosswording is perhaps one of the only endearing manifestations of elitism.
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A room oozing with self-importance and elitism applauded with vigor.
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That would be elitism, like in its most literal active form.
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But the mockery and elitism in that term rankles me now.
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Many, but not all, Democrats prefer to keep this elitism quiet.
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As Donald Trump has demonstrated, anti-elitism alone won't fix America.
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If not, then elitism will be the death of progressive politics.
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Yet somehow this music's defining trait became a kind of elitism.
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Here's the thing: you're always going to have elitism in anything.
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"Bouquet of Tulips" is an example of dreadful anti-elite elitism.
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Elitism, ignorance and selfishness are always dangerous variables in political leadership.
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Trump is about more than a gold-plated version of elitism.
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"I'm absolutely opposed to elitism and keeping people out," Noone said.
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These public universities often spiced de-facto elitism with anti-business snobbery.
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" Sounds a lot like elitism dressed in the garb of "equal opportunity.
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" At Destructoid, Jonathan Holmes pointed the finger at "the sentiment of elitism.
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He represents concepts like protectionism and isolationism, but also elitism and bellicosity.
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The latter extends to bigotry, manners, elitism, and disrespect to people's privacy.
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Ableism, misogyny, racism, elitism, and intellectual sloppiness deserve to be called out.
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Traditional anti-elitism and economic pressures are sparking an explosion of anger.
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Elitism wasn't an unfortunate corollary to this project but its animating ethic.
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Resistance is futile, government is the deep state, expertise is dangerous elitism.
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More, putting them together can help to ameliorate the charge of elitism.
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It's being pitched as many things: a vote against immigration, elitism or globalization.
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The dangerous rise of vaginal lightening Brands once used elitism to market themselves.
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This is part of the building's aesthetic, a sort of religious-nationalist elitism.
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Korski argued that undertones of racism and elitism coursed through the Leave campaign.
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After all, wouldn't running a celebrity candidate further associate Democrats with coastal elitism?
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Harvard College, once a bastion of elitism, is trying to promote more inclusion.
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More global summits or UN reports will only enhance the perceptions of elitism.
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There is an "elitism in the media that's not intentional, necessarily," he said.
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The elitism in there is more of a thing of family and community.
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Art history, deservedly or not, has acquired a reputation for elitism and dilettantism.
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To some, it represents hipster elitism in the form of a spreadable condiment.
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Third, we must move away from elitism and a politics-as-usual perspective.
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Employers still struggle with elitism in recruiting systems, and there's a big opportunity for us to break through that elitism by finding nontraditional candidates who may not have gone to top schools or who have the characteristics of early success.
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It is important that we have a serious conversation about elitism and rural communities.
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Chris Hahn, Chris Matthews made some interesting comments about creeping elitism in your party.
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Far from it: outside the big cities, PiS's nationalism and anti-elitism are popular.
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And just like Wakandan history, Black elitism runs deep and stings in its militancy.
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It soon became associated with tech bros and elitism, and thereafter was a punchline.
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For every joke warmly understood is one whose capacity to exclude edges toward elitism.
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What this new poll reveals is that the outsider, anti-elitism message is working.
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The older writers knew that being cultured and urbane wasn't a sign of elitism.
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A whiff of got-the-system-rigged elitism from the Democrats will be fatal.
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Washington (CNN)The confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh reinforces the elitism of the nine.
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But the question of elitism is so interesting when it comes to this administration.
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Is it not now considered to be mainstream, or am I guilty of elitism?
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He wants to blow up credentialed elitism — those who reject tuition-free college for all.
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Do you think that's it, or is anti-elitism also a force at work here?
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"Everybody knows we have a problem with elitism," he said on ABC's "The View" Thursday.
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which selects each year's recipient, is the pinnacle of global elitism.
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Their elitism is unbounded but their desire to actually participate in governing is non-existent.
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As for the opera gloves: Well, few accessories equate with elitism like elbow-length nappa.
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She went off on the entire idea of elitism at a House hearing this week.
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But it's worth asking: If all these full-throated attacks on liberal elitism ended with the ascension of a racist, sexist authoritarian who has a gross history of mistreating working people, then is attacking liberal elitism really the proper strategy for the opposition to Trump?
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But it's also true that some very obnoxious elitism has found a home in our party.
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President Trump slams Democratic elitism, his fiery remarks, a little but even more than that, next.
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Curation — or elitism, as some call it — is all the rage with dating apps right now.
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Elitism versus democracyClassical liberals were always surprisingly ambivalent about democracy, given their commitment to individual rights.
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But far from being egalitarian, the new policy may introduce more elitism into early childhood education.
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His potion—mixing muscular nationalism with Jewish chauvinism and anti-elitism—has helped poison Israel's politics.
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The problem with the economic interpretation, however, is that it tends to conflate elitism with selfishness.
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After Paul repented, he refused to be silent when it came to racial supremacy or elitism.
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Pointing the finger at educated liberals and our alleged elitism does nothing to address the problem.
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"Let's call it what it is: elitism and corporate gentrification," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Well, one, I think there's a lot of elitism in terms of where we recruit from.
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But its overriding theme is that technology should be an engine of equality rather than elitism.
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It goes against so many Trumpian principles: Anti-elitism, swamp draining, bad press caused by underlings.
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Trump slyly markets his anti-professionalism as anti-elitism and a rejection of staid, cautious thinking.
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"It can give a sense of elitism," one marketing exec who has worked with Netflix said.
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It smelled like his laundry detergent, a mix of fruity florals and Upper West Side elitism.
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On the streets, a backlash over high living costs and perceived elitism has also simmered down.
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"'Society' has a sort of old-fashioned sense of elitism — it feels more closed," she said.
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But she is withering about the New Left, and liberalism's turn toward elitism and identity politics.
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Biden has repeatedly accused Warren of elitism at public and private events over the last week.
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" He added that it also "confronts us with the limits of his humanism, his intellectual elitism.
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The great paradox of progressive populism is that it leads to elitism in its purist form.
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He claimed to the LA Times there's "a bit of elitism that's crept in" to Democratic thinking.
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Most of our institutions are riddled with histories of racism and elitism to which they still cling.
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The person selling them was a symbol of a coastal elitism they feared would leave them behind.
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" Carpenter knocked McEnany for elitism saying she was guilty of what "Donald Trump says the media does.
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It's a mix of anti-elitism, anti-political correctness, and white identity politics, not carefully cultivated policies.
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Every block in a city has markers—of neglect; of gentrification and elitism, and everything in between.
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There has been a strong populist allergy to elitism within the G.O.P. coalition for a long time.
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Even though I may agree with their policies, I think there&aposs a party attitude of elitism.
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Yes, there's a risk of us committing the very sins of coastal elitism we're trying to address.
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For an industry that once thrived on, and was defined by, elitism, fashion has become awfully transparent.
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It should break elitism and be as egalitarian in its approach as it is in its purpose.
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In an age of populism, to disapprove of the mass democratization of tourism is to risk elitism.
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But while Americans may not be used to so much blatant plutocratic elitism, the art world is.
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Social mores are evolving fast in South Korea, too: elitism has come under fierce attack this year.
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" In a 1995 book review in the Yale Free Press about a book called "In Defense of Elitism," Rao wrote that, "In this age of affirmative action, women's rights, special rights for the handicapped and welfare for the indigent and lazy, elitism is a forgotten and embarrassing concept.
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The core of its appeal was an anti-elitism that has been part of Midwestern politics ever since.
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Baker would go on to reject the elitism of art school to focus on domestic and personal life.
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Ideally, Wasserman reasons, a young mainstream liberal from outside Washington who doesn't bear the taint of coastal elitism.
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However, there are subgroups of Black people who use the concept of Black excellence to enact Black elitism.
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The push-and-pull between forces such as elitism be anti-intellectualism have deep roots, of course. pic.twitter.
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On a couple of occasions, citizens also spoke to concerns of arrogance and elitism that e-scooters represent.
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The events of a year ago brought the discussion of race, elitism and white supremacy front and center.
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It's the boldest show of academic elitism and greatest waste of taxpayer dollars since the duck penis thing.
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Secularist Elitism Versus Freedom Of Religion As the authoritarian tradition of Atatürk continued, the country became militantly secularized.
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Rage cloaked as anti-elitism, power restored to the people who never lost it in the first place.
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"Most of the press misunderstood the anger and anti-elitism that drove Donald Trump to power," he said.
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Many others are concerned about the rise of elitism and growing disunity between the classes in our county.
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Some think it has something to do with a hidden elitism there, but this is just an opinion.
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If you disagree with him on speech, he implied, you're siding with the forces of censorship and elitism.
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The elitism that ensured Condé's long reign over taste has lately also brought about the company's precipitous decline.
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One challenge for museums in calibrating their social activism is the patina of elitism that clings to them.
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More broadly, that demonization has set communities against each other: Rural residents resent the elitism of urban cores.
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The protests quickly spiraled into a broader movement against Macron, his pro-business reforms and elitism in general.
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Still, Wolfe's ear should not be underestimated, especially his still-timely attacks of the profession's often unrepentant elitism.
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Here's how she takes on the charge of elitism: Is it possible that Stanford admissions standards have gone down?
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But as the winners were announced, the reality of music industry sexism and elitism was more apparent than ever.
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KEEP IT UP On the streets, a backlash over high living costs and perceived elitism has also simmered down.
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Don't let any sense of purist elitism, or perhaps your own feelings of inferiority and embarrassment, keep you away.
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There's a difference between the elites and elitism, which is a set of policies that help the elite. Right.
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But for those who see socialism as a counter to the elitism they see in capitalist economies, think again.
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Warren's extraordinarily evident condescension or elitism because friend of the show Zaid Jilani did it very well last week.
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We talk about tech fetishism, elitism, and entitlement, alongside social media frenzies and the media's role in it all.
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I think there's a certain level of elitism when you're a law student thinking, Oh, you're this smart person.
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If I made the claim that, largely, dance music is ridden with elitism and snobbery, how would you respond?
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The students asked second-date questions about the topics she has been criticized for, starting with charges of elitism.
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The first option reeks of a kind of proprietary elitism, but it is of immediate benefit to the animal.
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The difference between elitism and populism might better be understood as a difference in a writer's attitude toward time.
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These days, it's a term of abuse — a shorthand for puritanical political correctness, a pejorative wielded against liberal elitism.
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As well as some great snacks, we had a conversation about intellectual elitism, DIY music scenes, empathy, and SZA.
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"Liberal elitism" isn't the only reason; recent gerrymandering of many counties saw historically blue states turn red this election. 93.
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Perfume brands are crushed under the weight of their own obsession with prestige and elitism, but could it get better?
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"A traditional members' club is about elitism and exclusivity," hospitality entrepreneur and founder Ronald Ndoro told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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There's simply no room in the global tech landscape for the Silicon Valley elitism that quashes innovation and destroys equality.
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In so doing, he turned the anti-elitism the party has long fostered in its supporters against its own leadership.
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They will say that our criticism reveals more about us and our supposed elitism than it does about Mr Trump.
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It all started in season 19 when the two took turns mocking political correctness, outrage culture, and Whole Foods elitism.
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What changed was an episode of the podcast Breaking Math about the very long-standing problem of science and elitism.
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Trump broke his campaign down into its most basic parts, turning this election into a war between populism and elitism.
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If there was ever a place to debate elitism and privilege and power, it'd be the Times op-ed section.
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When I first started getting into a lot of those white art spaces, there was an elitism that I felt.
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It's representative of an elitism that working and middle-class people do not share: 'We know best; you know nothing.
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I am interested in the American obsession with labels both obvious and implied, economic elitism and the business of branding.
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I'd learned to associate it with a kind of elitism and wealth I was not keen to observe up close.
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"Wood lived at a time when there was an urban-rural divide, and the populist attack on elitism," she said.
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Many fear that this year's midterm elections will once again result in a rejection of "elitism" by the same voters.
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In the wake of the Operation Varsity Blues college admissions scandal, how should meritocracy, elitism and college sports be handled?
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During a town hall meeting with Fox News this week, Bloomberg again exposed his elitism and hypocrisy on the issue.
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"Democrat leaders in Richmond, through their elitism and radicalism, have left a nearly unrecognizable state in their wake," he explained.
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In common with other anti-establishment leaders, Babis rose to prominence by pledging to weed out perceived elitism and corruption.
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There is plenty of fodder for Paltrow's critics, who have accused the former film star of elitism, quackery, and ignorance.
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Discourse around affirmative action The scandal has hit a nerve, going beyond discussions about elitism and raising issues of race.
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Most valuable of all, I felt special, which is important since so much of streetwear is about elitism and ego.
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That makes the task of accentuating his experience in tech, without alienating voters who associate the industry with liberal elitism, tricky.
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Talk of poetic forms and conventions elicits as much anxiety, defensiveness and accusations of elitism as mentioning overtures, arias and recitatives.
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It provides lots of evidence to suggest that the battle between illiberal democracy and liberal elitism will only become more intense.
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Bruni says this attitude feeds into claims of elitism by his supporters and further undermines our very real criticisms of Trump.
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Once upon a time we reveled in John Kerry's elitism (he windsurfs!), Mitt Romney's patrician habits (he's got a fancy horse
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Sometimes business lobbies like the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity borrow populism's language of anti-elitism to camouflage their self-interest.
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There is the same anti-elitism, the same appeal to educated young men who resent being trammelled in thought and speech.
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To some, it would seem yet another example of the excesses of these times, another example of class stratification and elitism.
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But, Greg, do you think that Chris Matthews thought that the Democrats had an elitism problem when Barack Obama was president?
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She remains an exceptionally unpopular figure in much of the country and is a symbol of Democratic cultural condescension and elitism.
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Abaroa's choice of materials, exhibition locations, even the name of the work, offer rejoinders to the elitism of High Modernist Art.
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The paragraph spawned all sorts of parodies online with many criticizing Brooks's perceived elitism or even saying it was just rude.
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In the name of anti-elitism and economic populism, legislatures have helped make state colleges and universities more exclusive, not less.
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But his chosen line of attack — her alleged elitism — replicates one that Republicans have tried, with varying success, over the years.
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The charismatic Mr. Mendoza, 54, skillfully combined egalitarianism on the shop floor with a detached elitism in his own social milieu.
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Brexit and Trump 2016 are inextricably linked — the exact same themes: sovereignty, stopping mass illegal immigration and a virulent anti-elitism.
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Three decades later, despite some genuine efforts to increase diversity, especially in progressive movement circles, exclusivity and elitism still divide us.
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Rising rents are only the manifestation of larger forces — inequality, art-washing, and elitism among them — bearing down on the neighborhood.
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It's worth noting that Facebook used elitism to earn its users' trust in the beginning, by opening itself only to Ivy Leaguers.
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Part of the rejection we saw in this election was this elitism within the Democratic Party about people who do certain jobs.
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The best way to restore a better balance between elitism and democracy is to prevent the elites from engaging in over-reach.
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Last year, the Hottest 100 faced accusations of cultural elitism, due to the station's exclusion of Taylor Swift on the 103 list.
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"Elitism" has become largely divorced from its original meaning — remember the good old days, when money and power made you an elitist?
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IN DEFENSE OF ELITISM: Why I'm Better Than You and You're Better Than Someone Who Didn't Buy This Book, by Joel Stein.
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" He said, "It's representative of an elitism that working- and middle-class people do not share: 'We know best; you know nothing.
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Of course, any move to de-emphasize the role of primary elections in the nomination process will be denounced as undemocratic elitism.
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In our world, vinyl has become associated with a kind of snaggle-toothed elitism we could quite happily and readily do without.
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The eternal rising costs of real estate, dense elitism of art galleries, and rampant closing of DIY venues add to the difficulty.
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Perhaps you've been incensed at the perceived elitism of the 1 percent who seem blind to their own privilege, arrogance and condescension.
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Ms. Kassan and Ms. Gelman are sensitive to criticism of elitism and said they plan to announce a scholarship program next year.
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That's not so surprising, given Americans' intensifying resentment of anything that smacks of elitism and given Republicans' attacks on science and intellectuals.
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That they exempt themselves from their social critique, unlike the aforementioned artists, proves only that exclusionary indie elitism is alive and well.
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And here's the real irony: Contrary to the claims of elitism, most of my New York friends think buttered rolls are disgusting.
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As a Montana native and a graduate of Columbia Law School, he has a foot in both coastal elitism and prairie pragmatism.
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Because of their practicality and egalitarianism, commercial colleges often hosted a spirit of rebellion against the elitism and stodgy classicism of academia.
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Upshot ____ A "parental arms race" is roiling youth swimming: Some children are wearing $500 high-tech racing suits, raising questions about elitism.
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To the Editor: Caitlin Zaloom overlooks one of the fundamental problems that has accompanied increasing anxiety about the cost of college: elitism.
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The strikes follow months of sometimes violent "yellow vest protests" over the high cost of living and perceived elitism of political class.
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Kessel was responding to a question about how Amazon plans to address "discrimination and elitism" at cashierless stores, according to the report.
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" He continued, "It's representative of an elitism that working and middle-class people do not share: 'We know best; you know nothing.
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After leading a magnificent account of Bruckner's Second, Mr. Barenboim spoke to the audience to defend classical music from charges of elitism.
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By contrast, the historian Lori Ginzberg argues persuasively that racism and elitism were enduring features of the great suffragist's makeup and philosophy.
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But I've now realized our reaction basically proved her point: the ugly-Christmas-sweater renaissance is a somewhat obnoxious strain of elitism.
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The result was a birth of a new economic ideology, the Obama ideology…or what I like to call, 'Liberal Economic Elitism' (LEE).
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It became a marker to point to the elitism of Clinton and a rallying cry for those who would vote for her opponent.
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" Rao agreed with some of the author's sentiments in support of elitism, writing that many of the book's criticisms of egalitarianism "ring true.
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The ad could be a searing satire of liberal self-importance and elitism, if it were even the slightest bit aware of it.
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That much-mocked news conference planted each of the thematic seeds (immigration, rage, anti-elitism) that have propelled him toward the Republican nomination.
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A flyer stating the community's principles lists diversity of people, income, profession, and interests; non-elitism; modesty of house sizes; community; and simplicity.
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Immediately, right-wing commentators on Twitter slammed the actress' speech as "liberal elitism," a way to push down "real Americans" from the heartland.
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These lessons are conduits of power, facilitating ways of knowing and doing that preserve and protect a culture of hypermasculinity, elitism, and entitlement.
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Their stories reveal the softer side of the who's-who game and make you forget the elitism that comes between seated and standing.
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He's vowed to tackle Mexico's most dire challenges -- poverty, violence and corruption -- while denouncing elitism and welcoming populism to the country's highest office.
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A political tradition with roots in paternalistic elitism, liberalism is nevertheless a product of the modern age and must ally itself with democracy.
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Alexander Hamilton and Washington: A Life are both handicapped by his refusal to acknowledge any flaw (elitism and slaveholding, respectively) without heavy qualifications.
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Extreme forms of metal music might be appropriated before pop music because taboo-breaking, elitism, and nihilism are inherent to various metal subgenres.
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It's possible to see how Hughes' association with elitism was in fact born from defiance — a defiance of the middling expectations of home.
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But a half-century ago, a champion of civil rights offered a third approach: a liberalism without elitism and a populism without racism.
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Although this critique fits well with the anti-elitism of the right and the reflexive self-criticism of the left, it is false.
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"Nobody knows pastrami there," he said, adding that it was a nation full of open-minded people, fiscal benefits and less cuisine elitism.
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Accusing Scorsese (and his defenders) of elitism was exemplary pseudo-populism, a defense of corporate hegemony disguised as a celebration of mass taste.
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Fairly or not, what made Jacobson and Waters heroes to some made them the embodiment of elitism and nanny-state overreach to others.
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Like the "center," it carries a whiff of closed-circle elitism, one that produced bipartisan dinner parties more readily than civil rights legislation.
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Amazon plans to start accepting cash at Amazon Go stores after reported accusations of "discrimination and elitism" and new laws banning cashless stores.
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Subsequent events that evening are disputed, in a case that has come to encapsulate the city's rifts and problems, including race, elitism and guns.
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The Obama administration has appointed a disproportionate number of Ivy League graduates to important positions—but educational elitism isn't just restricted to one party.
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Trump and his supporters have dismissed Hollywood as the "elite" and out of touch with "real" Americans, which is laughable because Trump personifies elitism.
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The enormous popularity of Banksy's brand of urban art has given the cultural establishment, increasingly jittery about perceptions of elitism, plenty to think about.
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It's unlikely you're going to see In Vogue make any conventional critical list of most influential albums, partly because of elitism towards their genre.
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A mostly underground economy fueled by sex and money is easily juxtaposed with traditional standards of whiteness, from political elitism to mundane day jobs.
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It is far less interesting than that, because all it does is feed into the thing that's gutting club culture—sneering, yellow-toothed elitism.
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"It smacks of elitism," said Cenk Uygur, founder of progressive news network "TYT" and host of The Young Turks, who supported Sanders in 2016.
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Yet it still clings to rigid class structure and at the very top is the royal family -- the pinnacle and global symbol of elitism.
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It's a false equivalency that has a long history in the United States that is tethered, in part, to anti-intellectualism and anti-elitism.
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He claimed that gatekeepers were the things that prevented people from getting what they really wanted and he postured as the enemy of elitism.
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Poptimism created the joyous lack of elitism that meant that a movie like Black Panther could be nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars.
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He considers himself a champion of the working class and regularly rails against what he sees as elitism in cities like Shanghai and Beijing.
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They integrated you with imperial ambitions and then let you loose into the world with a sense of elitism — but with your heart frozen.
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Handsome and criminally dishonest, Dora built his reputation in the 1950s and '21850s on genuine athletic brilliance, expensive cars and clothes, and vicious elitism.
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The constitution adopted in 1988 sought to break away from the country's history of elitism and inequality, further entrenched under two decades of military dictatorship.
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So the variable you used to quantify the quality of the restaurants was their Yelp rating— not prices, or "elitism," or ratings by restaurant critics?
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The way bands like Sports Team and Idles use their social media accounts sheds the elitism that previously came from being in a rock band.
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Anticipating a bold statement against white supremacy, I was surprised to find the movie to be a cautionary calling out of Black elitism and respectability.
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A difficult thing that has to do with elitism in the art world is that community art is often regarded as "lesser than" the arts.
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At first glance, taxing wealthy colleges may be perceived as an attempt to dethrone the Ivy League universities seen as bastions of coastal liberal elitism.
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In his illustrations, fashion is rescued from its worst tendencies— elitism, cultural scavenging— and revels in its best—innovation, collaboration, and an exploration of identity.
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Where Aliyah could be gently reasoned, Terry is driven by maternal protectiveness and a racial elitism that, in the early episodes, Ms. King feasts on.
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There was no upset over the cost of her wardrobe, which ran well into the tens of thousands of dollars, and the elitism that implies.
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In fact, some Sanders surrogates are attacking Biden's skill in building coalitions as a sign of evil elitism, as something only those nasty insiders do.
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These proposals have been roundly criticized for their seeming elitism, working on a life raft for the few while most people are left to die.
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Now it's just a question of how bad things get — and whether Republicans finally learn their lesson about the failures of knee-jerk anti-elitism.
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It's not just about women: The disturbing tendency to dismiss academic and especially scientific expertise as bias, or elitism, is at high tide, and climbing.
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Socialist Party officials respond that opposition leaders' elitism and their refusal to listen to complaints within their own ranks are the true cause of defections.
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It shouldn't be something that union members feel some kind of elitism about, as long as they can physically meet the demands of their jobs.
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The ignorance and racism and elitism built up within the kids there as a result of not being around anyone different than them were jarring.
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Elitism in wellness Although Goop may be improving its customers' health through conventional science or the placebo effect, some professionals have concerns about the price.
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"This is ELITISM and RESPECTABILITY POLITICS [Outley Brown] should be fired," Ashton P. Woods, a founder of Black Lives Matter Houston, wrote on Twitter Tuesday.
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He isn't quite sure, but it is certainly in part a rejection of what he has previously described as the "elitism" of the art world.
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Of course, there is a smug style in every political movement: elitism among every ideology believing itself in possession of the solutions to society's ills.
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But some Weinstein survivors feel that Time's Up, which has been accused of elitism before, ignored the women who made it possible in the first place.
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"This incident is directly connected to a entrenched culture of racism, misogyny, elitism, and hazing that has defined the Lampoon in recent years," the petition states.
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And he's got to be careful on the earnings and elitism issues that rivals have raised about Clinton, since he is part of that same world.
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But the air of elitism is what attracts CoCo, who gets a painfully tight weave (which is not realistic) and follows through with a pledging process.
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Myspace seemed like the enigma machine to crack mainstream elitism in 2006; a captive audience and a group of people unafraid to criticize the cultural gatekeepers.
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It's a funny running gag, but mocking Trump supporters is dangerously easy to criticize as condescending liberal elitism, especially when Trump is underperforming badly in polls.
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Or even over a bad pattern of editorial decisions dating back years demonstrating an institutional worldview poisoned by false equivalence, blinkered elitism, and fealty to power.
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So, if you want to talk about elitism that&aposs -- Obama -- I mean, remember for the Democrats, America is the fallen and they are the angels.
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That is positive elitism — embodying the pursuit of excellence rather than money or credentials — for which no one need apologize and to which anyone can aspire.
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As much as progressives try to define elitism in terms of money, the establishment that Trump and his supporters rail against is culturally — not economically — defined.
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In contrast, Mr. Gandhi, who studied in the United States and Britain, is seen by some as the face of the elitism associated with his party.
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" Mr. Biden accused her of "an elitism that working- and middle-class people do not share and branded her a "my way or the highway" politician.
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There's a return to the thing of putting on massive visuals, and there's an elitism within that—you need an incredible budget to do something like that.
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In a blog post last fall, she wrote that her goals had less to do with elitism and more with creating a community that empowers ambitious women.
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That is to say, Hoffman immediately tweeted a joke at Dern's expense — she joked that Dern had famous parents, and her win was proof of Hollywood elitism.
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The company has been accused of elitism, though founder and CEO Amanda Bradford has said her vision is more about creating a service that welcomes ambitious women.
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But Brooks's support for Clinton was phrased with such a mixture of elitism and condescension that it can only add fuel to the fire of Trumpian anger.
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Our mentors are coming from diverse populations, too, and they've experienced elitism and remember being a young adult who's just to figure his or her way out.
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But the musical avoids an equally pronounced feature of Hamilton's beliefs: his deeply ingrained elitism, his disdain for the lower classes and his fear of democratic politics.
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But wade deeper into camp country and you can't mistake the enduring gender norms, the hazing rituals, the elitism that colors the whole enterprise to this day.
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While we accept excellence and, dare I say, elitism in our athletes, and artists, so must we learn to honor, and not be afraid of intellectual excellence.
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From century to century, from continent to continent, from audience to audience, one person's elitism has a way of turning into another person's populism …and vice versa.
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Mr. Hofer may have been defeated, but his platform of nationalism, Islamophobia, Euroskepticism and anti-elitism still won nearly half the vote in a high-turnout election.
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Perhaps the most persuasive answer to worries about elitism is the observation deck, at the intersection of the old brick and new glass parts of the building.
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I believe it fundamentally boils down to two issues, a homogeneous culture of elitism and entitlement as well as a lack of committed leadership at all levels.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Bullying and elitism within global aid charity Oxfam have created "toxic" work environments and enabled sexual harassment by staff, an independent commission has found.
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With the U.S. outranked by seven other nations, there's simply no room in the global tech landscape for the Silicon Valley elitism that quashes innovation and destroys equality.
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This was the kind of elitism Hugo Chávez promised to do away with when he came to power and seized millions of hectares of land from wealthy landowners.
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It's imperative to acknowledge that the blurred lines between Black excellence and elitism do not negate the presence of racism that inserts itself at every level in America.
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The museum's origin story is also fitting for a space that aims to collapse artistic elitism and populism: It's independently funded and has no connections to artistic institutions.
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This is a visually stunning film about fashion, elitism, snobbery, possessiveness, and the ego of an artist, but it's also about the soft weapons of ruthlessness and politeness.
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More strangely, an expert I've used as a finance source before hit me back with a copyrighted, vaguely conspiratorial screed he'd penned about the elitism of institutional investing.
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Stone admires Nixon, whose face he has tattooed on his back, for his perseverance and his "anti-elitism," which for Stone mostly means telling liberals to piss off.
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The collective, which calls itself "MoMAR," is making a statement against elitism and exclusivity in the art world with its group art installation Hello, we're from the internet.
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The American far right is characterised by, as Angela Nagle puts it, "a slippery use of irony"; its "hip elitism" allows prejudice to be disguised as harmless entertainment.
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Not only was In-N-Out coming into a market Texans were generally satisfied with, but it also represented this kind of coastal elitism that always bothers Texans.
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Callejero epitomizes artists' tendencies to seek inspiration in the underbelly of society and also the hypocrisy of an art market that romanticizes poverty while actively participating in elitism.
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"We have gotten into the situation we are in socially and politically in this country because of problems of exclusion and elitism and the perception of those things."
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Gaining entrance to the English grass-court tournament is an odd mix of tennis-club elitism and power-to-the-people distribution — if you plan ahead, that is.
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And while it's easy to cry elitism, some of the tariffs' deepest impacts will be felt among supermarket wines, like Cavit, with more than 3 million cases imported.
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The movement has been fueled by economic and class resentments, particularly over elitism and inequality, and mostly among white working-class French in small towns and rural areas.
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Shedding urban elitism will require critical and painful self-reflection, more investment in green-blue alliances and an honest attempt to diversify the environmental movement and its agenda.
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But it has nonetheless come to epitomize the elitism of a New York City subculture in which patrons can afford to spend upwards of $1,000 on secondary market tickets.
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Here in Vancouver, the old complaints — of self-indulgent elitism, of a technophiliac mindset, of feel-good charitable sops by billionaires — have receded to the level of background hum.
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That may be a difficult task with this current crop of contenders, each with his own claim to privilege and elitism, but it's an obstacle that can be overcome.
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And I am the first to say that many of these wounds are self-inflicted, the product of too many years of bias, sensationalism, superficiality, elitism, mistakes and misjudgments.
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The gala-like event has also fanned worries about the appearance of elitism, amplifying the criticism of right-leaning critics of a press corps that appears out of touch.
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And while Pelosi may connote liberalism to many, in much of the country, her brand is quite the opposite -- reflecting an elitism that can hurt Democrats on Election Day.
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Highly admired by the art and fashion crowd, the Mudd Club—an inclusive antidote to Studio 54's opulent elitism—it was a vital component in NYC's dance scene.
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Accusations include "elitism, white washing, LGTBQIA exclusion and anti-blackness" — all of which are described in the letter as aggravating the misrepresentation of Latinx art rather than remedying it.
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On one side were those who viewed cooking an egg over a fire as the embodiment of food elitism and all that is annoying about the Slow Food movement.
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For the past year, he's been trolling the hell out of the wine industry with a very simple formula: memes that expose the elitism surrounding certain wines every day.
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They are the kinds of garments generally overlooked or dismissed by museums and collectors of dress, who tend to focus on fashion as an expression of elitism, artistry, aspiration.
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Mr. Nehru's great-grandson, Rahul Gandhi, now holds the party's reins and is attempting to revive its reputation, which has been tarnished by corruption scandals and accusations of elitism.
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An atheist, he challenged the monopoly that India's upper castes had on politics and what he described as the elitism of the country's founding party, the Indian National Congress.
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But Bloomberg's elitism toward everyday Americans isn't simply a talking point, his backing of pro-gun control measures and support of politicians who vote for them have serious consequences.
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It reveals an aspect of Sandberg's character that "Lean In" had suggested but — because of the elitism at its center — did not fully demonstrate: her impulse to be helpful.
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There are similar concerns that the Rust Belt states require a Democrat who is not vulnerable to the accusations of corruption and elitism that Trump successfully aimed at Clinton.
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The reason for this drop, Trende argued, was that white working-class voters who did not approve of Obama but were alienated by Romney's perceived elitism had not voted.
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Such a "winning trumps everything" attitude creates a hollowness of true character in our children and perpetuates a values system founded upon the false idols of privilege and elitism.
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Joker, from director Todd Phillips, landed four nominations (for score, director, best drama, and Joaquin Phoenix's performance); the film is a muddled but angry look at inequality and elitism.
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As both parties work to stave off populist revolts and push back at charges of elitism and favoritism, conditions have never been better for long-shot candidates to run.
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At the same time, it seems like people are blaming elitism and saying that we need to know "real Americans," otherwise we wouldn't have gotten in this position with Trump.
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Even though he promised to rid the US government of elitism, Jackson ended up bringing many of his close friends and political allies into power to pass his desired bills.
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Like Trump, Jackson promised to shake up elitism in the government, but the noted populist war hero was responsible for ruthless policies toward Native Americans, making his legacy incredibly controversial.
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Appealing to the rural population with promises to rid the government of elitism, Jackson ran against Adams again in 1828 and won the presidency by both electoral and popular votes.
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Many workers said they had faced entrenched elitism, sexism and racism, while problem staff members were often not held accountable for their actions, found the interim report released this week.
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However, what began as a discussion of world building and a call made by Tyson for "physics as liberating," quickly ended in an unsatisfying examination of elitism in media criticism.
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Social attitudes about people of color began to slowly progress during the Civil Rights Movement, but fashion and beauty — industries built on elitism — have been notoriously slow to embrace inclusion.
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Yet the most significant factor, because it says a lot about the broader state of politics, is a strong Irish-American political culture, rooted in anti-elitism, outsiderism and grievance.
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Her professorial-style haranguing might be a hit with coastal urbanites, but it misses the mark in Middle America, where she comes off as the ultimate caricature of Northeastern elitism.
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And yet, if celebrities are serious about getting their message across, they will need to be mindful of the elitism that, if we're going to be honest, often overshadows it.
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No one escapes her disdain, including her children, especially the two older ones (Meg Donnelly and Daniel DiMaggio), who she feels are in danger of being converted to Westportian elitism.
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For while fashion may be famous for its elitism, it has long been seen, and often sees itself, as the stepchild of the art world; the less worthy creative form.
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At the same time, it indulges in a familiar anti-elitism, one that views politicians, corporate titans, and the environmentalist ethos as a kind of scam perpetrated on the public.
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President Donald Trump's attendance at the event in 2018 was something of a surprise given that he has eschewed the elitism that an event like Davos is often accused of.
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Historians will look back at this election and study the ultimate paradox: The candidate who first defined the term "elite" — irrespective of his own elitism — was the one who won.
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The heritage fashion house, owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, has become one of several luxury companies seized upon by protesters as a potent symbol of inequality and elitism.
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Though three non-linear, but related segments, she assumes the roles of Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and the mythical unicorn, at once a symbol of unattainable freedom and white elitism.
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Afterward, while commentators debated whether the performance was too mean-spirited, Trump said Wolf "bombed" and set her up as a symbol of Hollywood elitism, someone for his base to oppose.
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On a global scale it is another step in the populist march against elitism that has brought the world Donald Trump, Brexit, Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil and Modi himself in India.
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Named after the high-visibility vests French drivers have to keep in their cars and worn by protesters, the revolt swelled into a broader movement against Macron, his reforms and elitism.
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The conspiracies I think are really bad are the ones that come from elitism and say that one group is better than another, so that's what I think is really stupid.
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Interestingly, Suleyman joined Oxford's Mansfield College, known for leading the charge on anti-elitism at the university; nine in 10 of the students it admitted in 2017 came from state schools.
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"Those that are aware of the housing crises or the conservative elitism of the art world are generally the first to react and understand my performance," Haarp tells The Creators Project.
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To sit in a rather antiseptic space and criticize what I'm doing when they have no clue about the lives of these people, it's classic elitism as far as I'm concerned.
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The World Economic Forum has in the past drawn scorn from anti-globalization groups as a symbol of lavishness and elitism, and at times attendees have tried to be less conspicuous.
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An alternative route might have been a more investigative, serious profile that examines how a Polish-born banker, Moses Ginsberg, created the hotel in an image of old New York elitism.
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"The ENA has come to symbolize exactly that which so many French people loathe: elitism," Alain Klarsfeld, a professor at the Toulouse Business School, wrote in a column in Le Monde.
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Anthony Tommasini's article struck me as a particularly egregious example of this obsessive anti-elitism: a well-intentioned but ultimately unfortunate phenomenon for the long-term health of American classical music.
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SCHLOSBERG I think that's part of our responsibility as an opera company in this century, to strip away the layers of expectations and elitism that have been attached to this genre.
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In this edition: A recap of this week's big elections, a look at the "elitism" debate inside the Democratic primary, and some answers about what the heck is happening in Kentucky.
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"Despite all democratic rhetoric, liberal democracy is a complex compromise of popular democracy and liberal elitism, which is therefore only partly democratic," Mr. Mudde wrote in an academic journal in 2004.
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Donald Trump's political skill was to speak defiantly about both of these sensitive issues -- elitism and race -- in simple, direct and politically incorrect ways that connected with white voters, particularly white men.
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He did a series of interviews that excoriated what he perceived to be the elitism of big fashion corporations like Nike, as well as the limits placed on him as a celebrity.
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Is it accurate to refer to Hollywood as a whole—a tremendously moneyed industry that often faces derision and charges of elitism, cronyism, and nepotism—as a place where outsiders truly thrive?
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Even Miss Venable's signature color, purple, becoming the symbol of Outpost elitism makes sense: Jeff and Mutt allowed the most powerful woman in their lives to have a little post-apocalyptic input.
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The belief that the law will never "catch up" to technology is borne in part of tech exceptionalism, a libertarian elitism that derides any kind of legal or regulatory impediment as Luddism.
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Stephens here is implying that the political polarization we're seeing around climate science—the routine outrage every time Trump or EPA head Scott Pruitt speaks—is being energized by intolerant, leftist elitism.
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Kessel was responding to a question about how Amazon plans to address "discrimination and elitism" at the cashierless stores, which charge purchases using an app connected to a bank or credit card.
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Streaming, in other words, is less a threat than a hope, doing more than any other innovation to tackle the elitism and the lack of access that plague the performing arts today.
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The exclusivity and elitism of Apple is the industry standard, and that's how it's marketed to everyone, but at the same time it infantilizes the consumer because of the way it's marketed.
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In blogs posts or columns — 691 all told — I've tried my best to represent readers' interests on topics as wide ranging as presidential campaign coverage, elitism, racial justice and the Middle East.
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The impulse to expunge all this and turn watching sports into an accounting exercise filled with insider jargon reflects some of the eye-rolling elitism that has entered our national political conversation.
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"Gunnlaugsson's politics follow the general trend we have seen lately in Western democracies towards anti-elitism, simplistic solutions and forms of nationalism," said Jon Ormur Halldorsson, a political scientist at Reykjavik University.
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"To carry this reform we need to put an end to the ENA," Macron said as he outlined his response to months of protests in part against elitism in the political establishment.
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What began as a movement against a since-scrapped fuel tax hike and the high cost of living, the yellow vest protests have become a broader movement against Macron, his reforms and elitism.
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The character's unwavering love of pink and embrace of the California Girl stereotype, even in the face of East Coast elitism, formed one of Legally Blonde's best takeaways: never perceive femininity as weakness.
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But when reporters expect special treatment or assume that government officials can't push back in the fight for controlling the public agenda, the realm of press exceptionalism or even press elitism is reached.
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These bizarre, graphic visual metaphors happen at least once an episode in Food Wars, a hugely popular, fairly problematic anime about world cuisine, empty elitism, and a plucky young upstart beating the odds.
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He also put all issues of globalism into this framework, making globalism synonymous with elitism — the establishment spending your money on people who don't live here — and protectionism a rallying cry for populism.
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While some may call this elitism or snobbery—and Didion's handling of race in this book is very skittish—it still reflects truths about the South, at least for people like Joan Didion.
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Complaints of elitism and preferential treatment have mounted as politicians, celebrities and pro athletes have received tests without having symptoms or any known contact with an infected person — requirements under some testing guidelines.
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Especially at a time when luxury itself is under attack, the windows of its gilded emporiums broken by the so-called Yellow Vest movement, a symbol of elitism and division rather than culture.
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Many explanations have been offered: the all-male priesthood and the celibacy imposed on Catholic priests; the elitism, careerism and clericalism of the church hierarchy; the lack of transparency or accountability among bishops.
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And isn't Prince Harry quitting so that he won't have to participate in an archaic, obsolete system with unpleasant echoes of imperialism and elitism that has made his wife a target for racists?
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Joe Biden was holding a fundraiser whose co-hosts had paid $15,000 and became among the first to hear him attack the "elitism" of his unnamed "my way or the highway attitude" opponents.
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Five years ago, it would have sounded like a partisan slur to say the GOP harbored enough racial resentment, xenophobia, anti-intellectualism, anti-elitism, and latent authoritarianism to nominate someone like Donald Trump.
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This continued the path of elitism, where athletes who had to work a non-sport specific job still had to maintain a rigorous training regiment in order to be competitive at their sport.
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His grasp of policy and his ability to make profoundly important issues accessible to a broader audience stand in stark contrast to the self-serving elitism that characterizes far too much of the media.
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"Donald Trump's political skill was to speak defiantly about both these sensitive issues -- elitism and race -- in a simple, direct and politically incorrect way that connected with white voters, particularly white men," Zakaria says.
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The League is best-known for the fact that users are screened before they can join (Bradford told me there are currently 100,000 people on the waitlist), leading to the aforementioned charges of elitism.
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McClusky said the bill "smacks of elitism" because it would only benefit families who can immediately start saving for their child's college fund, while the legislation also does away with the adoption tax credit.
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Whitten came out of an Abstract Expressionist tradition, but never brooded in elitism; he balanced the smart and the fun, the quiet and the hearty in his paintings with a relentless care for craft.
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J.D. Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy," at No. 1, and Nancy Isenberg's "White Trash," at No. 13, are more reflective explorations of how poor white Americans have felt stigmatized and abandoned by elitism and electoral politics.
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The question of how exactly Hughes so adamantly distinguishes between these polar terms, or how he "emphatically" separates his cultural elitism from his social outlook, was for me enough to dismiss his critical mind.
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Too many intellectuals have internalized a stereotype, emanating from both the far left and the far right, of fuzzy-headed elitism — as if willed ignorance and intellectual laziness did not cut across social classes.
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There's a silver lining though -- Scaramucci says signing up for 'Big Brother' brought him down from his ivory tower of snobbishness and elitism ... and got him back in touch with his blue-collar roots.
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The proliferation of expensive gear with dubious advantages has created anxiety over the future of the sport, raising questions about elitism and whether the youngest participants are being taught that success can be bought.
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M'Faddel said French racism and elitism were certainly problems, but she also placed a lot of blame on the political left for "infantilizing" Muslims and not trying hard enough to integrate them as citizens.
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Through their comparison, a counterintuitive and skewed relationship with elitism is brought to light — conceptual art that you need an MFA to "unpack" and elite artists pandering to the masses with sexy luxury objects.
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When will it dawn on liberals that their extremes — globalization, an immigration "open door," regulations that suffocate and an economy that leaves millions of displaced workers angry — are the result of decades of elitism?
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But I don't believe in all the religious elitism and pretentiousness, like people are better than you because they come to church, like you have to go to church and dress a certain way.
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That's a very elitist sort of attitude, but I think we need to have that sort of elitism in order to set the terms for the entire intellectual economy, and also it improves the culture.
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It's not every day a renowned physicist-TV personality and the director of Guardians of the Galaxy get into an argument about game quality and elitism, but this E3 is bringing out some interesting things.
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With her best friend and fellow reporter Anne Kornblut, she started "Chick Chat," a social group for female White House correspondents that drew political guests as well as charges of elitism from those it excluded.
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The study's authors — Elizabeth Fitzsousa, Nientara Anderson, and Anna Reisman — found that many of their subjects saw these paintings as a demonstration of their school's values, which they identified as whiteness, elitism, maleness, and power.
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At its root, the case for extending term limits to members of Congress is a populist one, running against the elitism which right now holds sway over much of the political establishment of both parties.
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"There is an elitism that makes it far too easy for them to rationalize their behavior with their belief that they are the smartest guys — and, yes, it's always guys — in the room," she said.
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Many tourists had lost their taste for the very sort of European elitism that Monaco's boosters had been trading on since Monte Carlo's founding as the world's first modern casino-resort, roughly a century earlier.
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Although the apparent consensus that Supreme Court justices must have gone to Harvard or Yale is a relatively recent development, there's always been a strong thread of elitism running through the legal profession's highest reaches.
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"There is an elitism that makes it far too easy for them to rationalize their behavior with their belief that they are the smartest guys — and, yes, it's always guys — in the room," she said.
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And it cannot ignore the importance of "instrumental" knowledge: Organized policy research in areas like economic development and urban planning can genuinely serve the common good (just as, conversely, humanistic inquiry can nourish reactionary elitism).
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And though I have no problem with certain kinds of elitism, Ms. Carlson is hardly an elite artist: She not only makes art for the people, but she also makes it with and about them.
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Capriles, a sports-loving lawyer who has tried to shake the opposition's reputation of elitism by focusing on grassroots efforts with poor Venezuelans, narrowly lost the 2013 vote against Maduro, and the two frequently lock horns.
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That opens up the culture industry to accusations of elitism — of being ensconced in coastal bubbles and overplaying the hand given by their wealth and power to think they have something to say to real America.
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"His grasp of policy and his ability to make profoundly important issues accessible to a broader audience stand in stark contrast to the self-serving elitism that characterizes far too much of the media," Murdoch said.
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His decision to attend also came in the same week that he parted ways with Steve Bannon, who provided a quasi-philosophical framework to Trump's insurgency against the "Davos Man" and the corrupt elitism he represents.
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There are also pessimistic expectations that Trump will use the pulpit to reinforce his "America First" narrative and thumb his nose at the attendees and the elitism that they represent and that his political base rejects.
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When Trump demonstrates that he "digs coal" by rolling back regulations, he's banking on rural nostalgia and pushing back against Obama, who for portions of white America became a symbol of urban elitism, progressivism and blackness.
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He became "keenly aware of the signifiers of power, the implications of the traditional portrait, which are about privilege, power, elitism," said Eugenie Tsai, curator of the Brooklyn Museum's 2015 midcareer survey of Mr. Wiley's work.
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The document also called for stricter measures to combat sexual abuse, including more transparency in Church structures, and denounced a culture of elitism among some Church leaders which it said can facilitate cover-up and corruption.
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So it is little surprise that anti-elite parties with little else in common generally rail against European integration—and that hostility to the EU predicts increases in vote shares nearly as well as anti-elitism does.
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The authors of the study hope that instead of being a sign of liberal elitism, drinking lattes will soon be seen as a symbol of inclusion—one of openness to globalization and willingness to embrace open markets.
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But the National Trust knows that if it is to keep up this momentum—and avoid charges of elitism—it must emphasise the "for everyone" part of its creed, and offer a more comprehensive definition of heritage.
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One of the strange things about the Trump candidacy has been that his populist policy platform has coexisted with some of the gaudy East Coast elitism of his previous life as a New York real estate mogul.
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Politicians leading the charge would also go out of their way to draw a sharp line between Trump's policy preferences and Trump himself, so as to avoid reproducing the snide elitism Trump pilloried on the campaign trail.
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But while Clinton may have learned (too late) that Democratic leaders are under intense pressure to repair an image that has been tarnished by accusations of elitism and corruption, Obama doesn't seem to have received the memo.
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That's what statesmanship is for — to bridge gaps between complacent winners and angry losers, to weld populism's motley grievances into a new agenda suited for the times, to manifest an elitism that is magnanimous instead of arrogant.
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A police lockdown and fears of widespread vandalism prompted executives at several high-profile companies to close their Paris stores, and their mouths, after some protesters seized on French fashion logos as symbols of inequality and elitism.
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The G.O.P. has spent millions over the years to brand Ms. Pelosi as a radical liberal and an avatar of coastal elitism, and even many Democrats who contest that characterization say the ads have taken a toll.
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In coverage of Malia's decision, conservative and liberal media alike called out the perceived elitism of gap years: "Malia Obama Taking a Gap Year Is the Ultimate Sign of Luxury" read the The New York Post headline.
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The rise of contemporary and then streetwear brands reshaped consumer wardrobes and shopping patterns, as elitism was trounced by accessibility, and brick-and-mortar emporia went from being magnetic landmarks to millstones weighing down the bottom line.
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At a time when classical music has to fight persistent charges of elitism, it is worth pointing out that more than a quarter of the 28,000 or so performances each year across all 50 states are free.
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And in this era of concern about "the 1 percent," the play understates Hamilton's deep commitment to elitism, while ignoring the downsides of the conservative, British-influenced political and economic system he wanted to put in place.
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Background Reading: David on American anti-Semitism Ross on Tucker Carlson's anti-elitism and the G.O.P.'s post-Trump populist dilemma Michelle on anti-Zionism versus anti-Semitism, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict under President Trump, and the end of liberal Zionism Bret on anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism, how Trump is bad for Israel, why liberal Jews shouldn't give up on Israel, and Tucker Carlson's faux-anti-elitism I've been an Op-Ed columnist since 2009, and I write about politics, religion, pop culture, sociology and the places where they all intersect.
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The thirst for industry elitism and superficial accolades had quickly turned a lot of individuals I knew into vultures who would only hang out with me to appear diverse, portraying the role of the ally for visual purposes.
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That combination of stupidity and elitism goes down smoothly (maybe because we all want to imagine just how miserable the 1% really is, surrounded by all that cash and corruption), and it also goes great with cranberry sauce.
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I wrote many months ago that a large number of people who voted for Trump weren't voting for him, they were voting against Washington, the media and the elitism that had been a chaff for so many years.
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" He continued: "If you were to take all the arrogance and entitlement and elitism that people don't like about Hollywood and show business, and you concentrated it in one city, and gave those people actual power, that's Washington.
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"You could see this anti-elitism in his publications — witness 'Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft,' which by its title says, 'Come on in, we promise not to take ourselves too seriously,' " Mr. Levy said by email.
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To the Editor: Re "The Wave That Could Carry Trump," by Matthew Continetti (Op-Ed, June 19): It is baffling to me how supporters of President Trump can claim anti-elitism as a reason for voting for him.
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" For RT and its viewers, the outlet is a refreshing alternative to what they see as complacent Western elitism and neo-liberalism, representing what the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov recently called a "post-West world order.
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To celebrate, he organized a one-night-only retrospective of his work at his apartment, where the star-studded guest list, including Andy Warhol and his entourage, would embody the elitism that Varble abhorred within the art establishment.
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As the snow settles in Davos with the World Economic Forum (WEF) coming to an end, the co-chairs of the organization reflected on the progress of the week, at times defending the annual gathering from criticisms of elitism.
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Once upon a time, in the hazy, historic, Woody Guthrie Left of long ago, elitism, advanced degrees, and erudition were things to be, if not exactly ashamed of, then things not to be paraded around as badges of honor.
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The common thread in all of this is to see the comfort with modernity and cultural pluralism that characterizes the Federalist/Whig vision as ultimately more significant than the anti-elitism and small-d democracy of the Jeffersonian one.
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There is an elitism in policy between those who make the decisions and those who implement them, just as much as there is a social distinction between corporate executives and the people who have to carry out their directives.
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Trump's voters, many of whom cheered Trump's attacks on elitism, stand to sour on the President if he turns out to be just like any other politician: a busy individual who is unable to police everyone on his team.
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Film funding and distribution often hinge on the endorsement and participation of big-name personalities, but perceived Hollywood elitism or liberal ideology can be a major turnoff to right-leaning constituencies like Hescox's, a catch-22 for cinematic proselytizers.
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Actor Richard Schiff pushed back on the idea of Hollywood elitism in an interview that aired Thursday on "Rising," saying that most middle-class members of the entertainment industry go through the same economic struggles faced by other Americans.
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In his role as a guardian of yeshivas, he vigorously opposed any educational structures that smacked of elitism, according to Rabbi David Hofstedter, leader of Dirshu, an ultra-Orthodox organization based in Canada that provides stipends for yeshiva study.
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No. 13 Yale Will Beat Louisiana State WHY IT WILL HAPPEN It is refreshing that, this year, the jokes will not be about Ivy League elitism but Ivy League corruption: This is a positive development for the democratic sensibility.
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And while some of the new clubs might see themselves as an alterative to that elitism, the truth is that many of the newer clubs' members would not be readily accepted at the old if they wanted to join.
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Lucie Greene, the resident futurist at J. Walter Thompson, said she thought it was a reaction to "the well-being movement," noting the elitism of a lifestyle predicated on $100 Lululemon leggings and $10 bottles of cold pressed juices.
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During the campaign, right-leaning NeverTrumpers invoked the warning of Alexis de Tocqueville, the Frenchman whose immortal analysis "Democracy in America" most voters will never read, that populism threatens to turn republics into tyranny as much as elitism does.
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Besides, to assert that making money off a book is somehow less tainted than making money off a shirt is arguably an example of exactly the kind of elitism that helped get Mr. Trump elected in the first place.
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Trump told his supporters they're better than 'elites' The President has long built anti-elitism into his act, bragging at rallies that he's richer, smarter and more successful than "them" -- and suggesting that his supporters are too, by association.
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Senior Curator Donna De Salvo organized more than 350 of the most influential works that illustrate Warhol's ability to bridge the paradoxes of American life, like fame and privacy, democracy and elitism, innovation and conformity, and truth and propaganda.
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So it's unsurprising that Streep incurred immediate backlash from conservatives on social media for perpetuating Hollywood "elitism" and "smug liberalism" — most notably from news show hosts Meghan McCain and Tomi Lahren: This Meryl Streep speech is why Trump won.
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The audit office said the 2% target did not take into account all the concessions that Macron has made to 'yellow vest' protesters who for more than six months demonstrated against high taxes, dwindling purchasing power and his administration's perceived elitism.
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The Telegraph recently conducted an investigation on elitism in the "high" arts, finding that it is the image of the "stuffy" and "hoity-toity" theatre-going public—rather than the cost of tickets—that gives these forms a snobbish aura.
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When Trump, a wealthy man, boasts that he doesn't pay taxes, he plays right into an image of greed and elitism that can be used to undercut the arguments he is making to working voters in states like Pennsylvania and Ohio.
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Macron is seeking to reboot his presidency after five months of protests against high taxes and what demonstrators see as elitism from the political establishment, which they say is embodied by the 41-year-old Macron, a former investment banker.
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A ban on Capriles - a sports-loving lawyer who has tried to shake the opposition's reputation of elitism by focusing on grassroots efforts with poor Venezuelans - would mean the country's two top opposition politicians are barred from taking on Maduro.
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After facing weeks of protests over fuel tax hikes, squeezed purchasing power and perceived elitism, President Emmanuel Macron's government came out with a package of concessions worth more than 10 billion euros aimed at boosting the income of the poor.
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The true relationship may be more a correlation than causal: Mr Trump's rise and the Alt-Right were both cultivated by the kamikaze anti-elitism of the Tea Party, rampant conspiracy theories and demographic shifts that disconcert some white Americans.
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This is a testimony to the rising right-wing anti-intellectualism in the U.S., where being well read and well educated is not to be admired—or even something to aspire to—but rather bestows the black mark of elitism.
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Reciprocal wild cards between Grand Slam nations might be a present-day symbol of the solidarity among the most prestigious tournaments, but they are also an outdated symbol of elitism in a sport where the barriers to entry are already high.
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One of the film's most memorable tag lines — "When everyone's super, no one is" — is considered by some as welcome pushback to the kind of liberal sanctimony long buried in Hollywood films; others see a barely concealed case for elitism.
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In the crucible of the 1990s culture wars, this egalitarian impulse was institutionalized under the banner of "visual culture," a new interdisciplinary field intended to redress the perceived elitism of art history, its canon of genius and its hierarchies of value.
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For nearly 20 years, Adam Lerrick, a conservative economist, has been a vocal scold of global organizations like the International Monetary Fund, arguing that such institutions burn through taxpayer money and foster an insular culture of elitism, bailouts and scant accountability.
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For Moskowitz to accuse The Times of elitism while she taps some of America's most eager capitalists to help fund her schools (including the billionaire family of Betsy DeVos, now secretary of education) is yet another contradiction that goes unmarked.
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Fulfilling the ideal of inclusivity and staying true to the mission to offer an escape from elitism now requires opening the door to a new group of elites who aggressively translate social capital into real dollars and then keep the profits.
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In that way, as the Breakthrough Institute's Alex Trembath has argued, the plant-based meat backlash reflects how much classism and elitism creep into our national conversations about our food system — and how they might stand in the way of fixing it.
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The trend toward writing Florida off as a lost cause hints at a very gross brand of elitism and classism that ignores the sense of humor, cultural bonds, and feeling of belonging that define what it means to feel like a Floridian.
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The big picture: "Thousands of police were deployed nationwide to contain the eighth day of deadly demonstrations that started as protests against tax but morphed into a rebuke of President Emmanuel Macron and the perceived elitism of France's ruling class," AP reports.
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But Mr. Rees-Mogg's unabashed elitism and past support for a no-deal Brexit that economists say would do serious harm have made him a frequent target of critics who would like to make him, not Mr. Johnson, the emblem of the government.
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The stylized image of the collector's lifestyle, as presented by The 13th Floor (reinforced by the wait time to ascend), was one of art-world elitism buoyed by white, male privilege — a privilege inescapably enjoyed by Berardini and Felix's founder, collector Dean Valentine.
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In its obliviousness and elitism, the Hillary campaign has come to resemble the "Remain" campaign in the United Kingdom, which lost after a critical mass of working-class Britons determined that the European Union wasn't the glorious civilizational triumph they'd been told.
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Both Harvard and Hollywood are probably trying to shed the tag of elitism, and Harvard is no doubt reasoning that to close itself off from this president's enablers is to forfeit an opportunity to understand why so many Americans voted for Trump.
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Gustavo Gatica, 22, a psychology student at a Santiago university, said Pinera, a conservative billionaire two years into a second term in office, squandered an early window to engage with demonstrators' complaints of social inequality and elitism when unrest began in October.
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Approval for Chile's President Sebastian Pinera has sunk to just 26% since widespread protests against elitism and inequality broke out, with less than half of Chileans now believing the country is a functioning democracy, according to a poll released on Thursday.
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Without using Warren's name, he complained at the fundraiser chaired by commercial real estate executives, where co-hosts pledged to raise more than $15,000 for the campaign, that some in the Democratic Party represent "elitism" that isn't shared by the party's base.
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He was replaced by Paolo Gentiloni, who chose not to make the trip north from Rome to Milan for the fall fashion shows — maybe because he was busy, maybe because he didn't want to be associated with the kind of elitism they represent.
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EMILY JASHINSKY, THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER: That&aposs exactly why the story is important, because Alan Dershowitz struggles in his socialist struggling in the enclave of liberal elitism actually says something about the state of where liberal elites are, and that there is this intolerance.
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Liberalism at its best should preserve a delicate balance between four opposing sets of principles: (1) elitism and democracy, (21970) top-down management and self-organisation, (235) globalism and localism, and (230) what might be termed, for simplicity's sake, the hard and the soft.
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While easy to box the situation behind words of privilege, elitism, or immaturity, the broader truth is that many Americans who travel abroad carry a justified pride in America, but create a broader problem for our people internationally when that pride transcends into illusory arrogance.
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Despite efforts to revamp its image, Goldman has remained a byword for elitism, something that Trump tapped into during the election campaign, releasing a television ad that characterized Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein as part of a "global power structure" that had robbed America's working class.
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A version of that resentment, usually labeled populism or anti-elitism, has become a potent force in American politics, and while Amis has much to say about its improbable vehicle — our 45th president — the tenor of our public life at the moment eludes him.
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While WEF says it has helped to improve the state of the world by re-defining growth, promoting adaptation and planning for the future, its detractors say the event is useless and the resort, where a hot dog can cost $43, smacks of elitism.
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The show explores when and why the hoodie became intertwined with certain communities, like the worlds of hip-hop and Silicon Valley, and how designs from some of the biggest names in fashion came to reflect evolving social concerns like elitism and gender neutrality.
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By Natalia A. Ramos Miranda SANTIAGO (Reuters) - University entrance exams to be taken by 300,000 students around Chile were disrupted in some cities on Monday by fresh protests over inequality and elitism, with some students blocking access to test sites and burning exam papers.
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Several key Republican lawmakers are expressing support for the programs, which, since their near-death experiences during the culture wars of a generation ago, have taken pains to counter accusations of coastal elitism by making sure to distribute their grants widely across all 50 states.
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Their aim with setting up the space was to "break down the barriers of elitism" in the art industry, not only showcasing more unsung artists who might struggle to be seen, but also letting anyone buy the art, be they first-time buyers or institutions.
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But again, any time the Hollywood elite come out and they take some issue against you know Trump policies or etcetera, it further creates the divide between the Hollywood elitism versus the standard every day people that&aposs been sort of the hallmark of the Trump presidency.
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The only people surprised by how well she played her hand with the president are the ones who for various reasons — among them ignorance, elitism, and sexism — don't understand just how good the Kardashians are at getting what they want, and winning every game they play in.
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CNBC caught wind of Amazon's plans through a tip from an insider who sent the site a recording of an Amazon employee meeting, where Amazon's senior vice president of physical stores, Steve Kessel, was responding to a question about the "discrimination and elitism" at Amazon Go stores.
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Campaign 101, fam: you gotta spend more time building a case for your candidacy rather than full time painting a portrait of your opponent And it seemed just fine with its own arrogance and the self-inflicted wounds of political elitism on display in leaked emails.
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Though Smith argues vehemently that, among other things, it's America's culture of "misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, class-based elitism, self-hatred, violence, untreated mental illness" that derails young boys en route to black manhood, he reserves his most acidic critiques for Hampton administrators, Obama and Smith's own father.
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They finally saw, with Donald Trump in the U.S. and Brexit in the U.K., a chance to reject the failed elitist consensus and get real change that would help improve the lives of those who had been left behind by the sweeping changes that elitism had unleashed.
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The modern conservative movement has been taken over by this cheap anti-elitism, a belief that people who study things professionally are not to be trusted unless they pass conservative political tests and are housed at institutions like the Heritage Foundation, Fox News, or Liberty University.
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Critics have taken aim at their perceived elitism (you need a smartphone and a credit card to use scooter-sharing apps) and the sudden, permissionless way they were rolled out in cities, which fit a pattern of bad behavior set by tech companies like Uber and Airbnb.
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Mr. Lagerfeld, who was white and German, grew up in a hothouse of high culture and elitism in the first half of the last century, escaped to Paris as a teenager and apprenticed among the most historic French houses (Balmain, Patou) before beginning his career at Chloé.
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Eric Foner, the author most recently of "Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad," said he wished the show had complicated its populist portrait by noting Hamilton's elitism and dedication to property rights, which were "more important to him" than fighting slavery, Mr. Foner said.
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More organically, there have been hundreds of similar demonstrations around the country in support of the president or against the left, ranging from a protest against Hollywood elitism at the Oscars, to a sit in at a Starbucks where a woman was mocked for her Trump tee shirt.
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"The social elitism, prestige and fast-track career progression often associated with a private Ivy League education undoubtedly provides a springboard towards wealth creation and for some high achievers to attain billionaire status: Five of the top seven-ranked billionaire universities are Ivy League schools," Wealth-X reports.
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There was Brandon Maxwell's ode to "the women who have opened doors for others" in the form of soft-focus rosy day dresses and neatly tailored denim; crisp tailcoat shirting and generous, swishing ball gowns, all haloed in the air of high society yet free of any accompanying elitism.
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Conservative intellectual debate pits theoreticians of the predominance of executive power against tribunes of legislative power, apostles of highbrow elitism against enthusiasts for iconoclastic cultural populism, champions of the Middle Ages against the die-hard defenders of Enlightenment reason, the most bloodthirsty hawks against most uncompromising doves, etc.
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Bernie Sanders's candidacy was not merely an attempt at a party's nomination, but a challenge to a status quo that has left too many people feeling left out and bewildered, and to the neoliberal globalism and political elitism that has been the mantra of Washington for 40 years.
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To hear Mr. Peters himself tell it, though, the book, "We Do Our Part," is a desperate plea to his country and party to resist the temptations of greed, materialism and elitism — vices he believes have corroded the civic culture and led to the Democrats' failure last year.
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The global elites—that is the people who run the world's biggest companies, NGOs, and trans-national organisations such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and, of course, the European Union—have routinely emphasised the first of these two principles (elitism, top-down management, globalism and hard metrics).
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Wine has a third-rail quality when it comes to elitism -- stupid liberals, drinking their stupid chardonnay -- despite the fact that per capita consumption in the United States is nearly three gallons per year, or that wine has been growing as a percentage of our alcohol consumption for a quarter century.
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It tries desperately to cast the Civil War, and specifically dissent within the Confederacy, as more a populism-versus-elitism class struggle in which poor white men were forced to fight a rich white man's war and protect the cotton trade, rather than equally a conflict about the moral abhorrence of black slavery.
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Who from the White House is supposed to be attending • Seven cabinet secretaries, led by Steven Mnuchin • Jared Kushner and the F.D.A. commissioner, Scott Gottlieb • John Kelly, H.R. McMaster and Gary Cohn (if Mr. Trump goes) That's a big delegation for a populist leader to send to a hotbed of global elitism.
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His point here, expressed with maximal elitism and arrogance, is that meritocracy essentially co-opts the talented people who in a different world would be leaders in their local communities, their regions, their social classes, pulling them all up into a national elite and weakening every rival power center in the process.
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Conservative Member of Parliament Jacob-Rees Mogg, who is now being tapped for Conservative Party Leader, was once seen as unelectable by his own party for his stringent Catholic views on abortion, his opposition to "political correctness," and his unapologetic elitism (he named his sixth child Sixtus Dominic Boniface Christopher Rees-Mogg).
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" In his autobiography and in an interview that has drawn charges of out-of-touch elitism from some quarters, he reflected on that history by quoting a passage from "The Quiet American" by Graham Greene: "Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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So it was armed with that knowledge that I swallowed the dance chart for what it is —a genuinely more accurate reflection of what it is about contemporary dance music that people actually like, free of the snobbery and the elitism that comes with being a card carrying member of the Serious Techno crew.
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For a deep dive into Netflix's relationships with brands, check out Business Insider's recent coverage: 'It gives a sense of elitism': Netflix is pioneering brand deals for streaming TV, but some partners bemoan its approachHow Netflix's experimental approach to marketing tie-ins creates new opportunities for small and mid-sized brands'Stranger Things' is back.
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By Natalia A. Ramos Miranda and Aislinn Laing SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's President Sebastian Pinera on Monday signed off on a referendum to be held on a new constitution, which he vowed would generate a "solid, compassionate and legitimate framework" that would help reunify the country after nine weeks of intense protest over inequality and elitism.
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Streep, who was a passionate supporter of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign, used her platform (where she was being honored for her lifetime achievement as a film actress) both to defend Hollywood against charges of elitism and to call for people in the performing arts to remain resilient and proactive in the face of intolerance.
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The second engine of elitism is Anglo-Saxon neoliberalism: a school of thought that had its roots in the ideas of libertarian economists such as Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman, who argued that the freedom to buy and sell things in the market is much more important than the freedom to exercise your vote every five years.
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At the end of the day, this same elitism is what got Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE elected.
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The left, they scream, suffers from an incurable disease known as "liberal elitism," whose symptoms include: writing for and/or reading The New York Times, calling racist people racist, obtaining a graduate degree, speaking positively of Hillary Clinton, wearing tight jeans and/or man buns and disrespecting of one the great art forms known to man, mixed martial arts.
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In the Vanity Fair piece from this summer, Lawrence "Four Pins" Schlossman said: "What's awesome about brands like Supreme and Palace—and this is one of the biggest factors of their popularity—is that initial retail price point is super palatable," which is a sentence that breathes money and boujee loft apartment-elitism and being all about menswear.
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The protests have more to do with Macron's elitism and perceived disdain for the working class: While the protests may have started over the fuel tax, they have since morphed into a broader indictment of Macron's handling of the French economy and his perceived elitist disregard for the effects his policies are having on France's working class.
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On the basis of his public doubts about democracy, his reverence for the occult elitism of the philosopher Leo Strauss, and his relationship to Trump, it's clear enough how he thinks reality ought to be administered: by people like him and Zuckerberg, while the rest of us are distracted by the online videogames of our lives.
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The Daily Listen and subscribe from your mobile device: On iPhone or iPad | On Android via RadioPublic | Via Stitcher During Donald J. Trump's campaign for president, he portrayed the decision by President Barack Obama to sign a global climate agreement — the so-called Paris accord — as an example of the out-of-touch elitism of government.
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Read more: 'It gives a sense of elitism': Netflix is pioneering brand deals for streaming TV, but some partners bemoan its approachWhere movie studios typically have quotas for the amount of media spend they bring in from outside partners around major theatrical releases, Netflix normally doesn't ask its partners to commit to a certain media spend, marketers who have worked with Netflix said.
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Many of these former Democrats — particularly men who hold right-of-center views on race, gender and immigration — cast far fewer of their ballots for Sanders and his progressive policies this time around, compared with four years ago, when they shied away from Clinton's perceived elitism, her ties to Wall Street, her social liberalism and the fact that she is a woman.
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She represented not just a terrific talent who built an idea about handbags into what became a billion dollar brand, but a critical figure in the continuum of women who have defined fashion in the United States: designers who thought about what other women (like her) would want in their closets (and later, their homes) and who solved that problem without elitism.
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While he smiled upon the white nationalists in their "Make America Great Again" caps, his agenda has more to do with stoking nationalist fervor against foreign trade, overseas military involvement and big-money Washington elitism than simply courting the neo-Nazi "collection of clowns" and "losers," as he called them in a wild interview with The American Prospect, a liberal journal, this week.
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Wrote O'Neal at the A.V. Club: To these acolytes, Parker and Stone have spent two decades preaching a philosophy of pragmatic self-reliance, a distrust of elitism, in all its compartmentalized forms, and a virulent dislike of anything that smacks of dogma, be it organized religion, the way society polices itself, or whatever George Clooney is on his high horse about.
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Postmodernists, Heer wrote, describe a world where Fragmented sound bites have replaced linear thinking, where nostalgia ("Make America Great Again") has replaced historical consciousness or felt experiences of the past, where simulacra is indistinguishable from reality, where an aesthetic of pastiche and kitsch (Trump Tower) replaces modernism's striving for purity and elitism, and where a shared plebeian culture of vulgarity papers over intensifying class disparities.
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Warren's response to the charges, made at their first debate, offers a window into how she might deal with the elitism issue in a future general-election campaign for president: She portrayed herself as an only-in-America success story, adding she was motivated to run for office because she thought the opportunities she had were less available to today's young people aspiring to improve themselves.
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Moschino, fall 2020Credit...Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times MILAN — The day after a billionaire became a punching bag on a debate stage in Nevada, and questions of money and privilege and elitism once again were in focus, at the end of a runway in Milan Jeremy Scott constructed an actual stage for his Moschino show and raised the same issues on it.
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Netflix's partnership strategyHow Netflix's experimental approach to marketing tie-ins creates new opportunities for small and mid-sized brands'It gives a sense of elitism': Netflix is pioneering brand deals for streaming TV, but some partners bemoan its approachNetflix doesn't want to 'get distracted' by trying to make money directly from deals with brands like Coca-Cola and NikeCoca-Cola was the biggest brand winner from Netflix's 'Stranger Things' season 3.
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These are encouraging steps, but much more is needed: not only the kind of spiritual renewal that Pope Francis demands but also the kind of systematic change that can safeguard children and vulnerable adults, restore some credibility to the institutional church and begin to dismantle the culture of clericalism — the spiritual elitism of holier-than-thou cliques who cover for one another as they try to run the church.
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These writers describe a world where the visual has triumphed over the literary, where fragmented sound bites have replaced linear thinking, where nostalgia ("Make America Great Again") has replaced historical consciousness or felt experiences of the past, where simulacra is indistinguishable from reality, where an aesthetic of pastiche and kitsch (Trump Tower) replaces modernism's striving for purity and elitism, and where a shared plebeian culture of vulgarity papers over intensifying class disparities.
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Yardley eloquently speaks to many of these, and I would add a few more, some trivial but still noteworthy: the rampant advance of capitalism, ranging from the commercialization of Halloween to the corporate naming of our sports stadiums and other public buildings; feminism and civil rights becoming dirty words; the rebirth of exclusiveness and elitism, like the Greek system and brand-only consumerism; and wearing one's religion (read: Christian) like a lapel pin.
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For those on the right, elitism has nothing to do with wealth, because President Trump, his billionaire cabinet and his multibillionaire backers are on the side of the "people" and have won their victory precisely because they are against the elites, while in the British media world, Mr. Murdoch, the Barclays and Mr. Dacre, despite being insanely powerful, can also not be counted among the elites because they are constantly attacking them on the people's behalf.
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Comparisons are constantly drawn between fashion and food in terms of ethics, sustainability, and production practices, but there is also a common, resounding air of snobbery and elitism: Buying ethically-sourced coffee beans and getting your food delivered in a neat little box from Whole Foods is great, sure — but if a struggling mother of four had to choose between that and buying the same things for a third of the price at Fairway, could you judge her for opting for the latter?
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While a musician like Collier is clearly riding on our prized classical notions of musical genius that are problematic because they represent an exclusionary elitism, his virtuoso musical skills also coincide with his skills at contemporary technological innovation (he builds his own hardware and is pushing the boundaries of immersive live performances, plus he's known for his nuanced utilization of social media to push his career) in ways that seem go beyond the stuffy old criteria for genius we've become accustomed to.
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When the modern GOP coalition was effectively solidified in 1980, it forged a common thread among roughly three types of voters: Main Street business Republicans who identified primarily around economic issues (think Paul Ryan supporters), Christian conservatives who were reasonably affluent but were first and foremost motivated by the culture wars (think Ted Cruz voters), and so-called "Reagan Democrats," which became the nickname for the disaffected working-class whites whose aversion to the Democratic Party's condescending elitism and racial liberalism overwhelmed their hope that government could somehow help them out (think Donald Trump supporters).
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The Sanders vision of the DNC is that it should be a popular-based center of organization and small-donor fundraising that supports Democrats at all levels of national and state politics and government, and promotes an agenda that offers a powerful alternative to the crony capitalism, insiderism, elitism and phony populism of President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE.
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