Word: elitists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reader have self-identified as either one or the other of the above. But why bother? To what extent are the movies available to us really bifurcated on such a simple line? "That arty stuff is boring," complains Average Joe Popcorn. "Those action pictures are so senseless," scoffs Elitist Joe Coffeeshop. Neither of these statements are universally true, of course, which brings us back to Henry James. And to vampires...
Matthew S. Caywood '98 called the bill elitist...
Joseph P. DiPasquale '00 agreed that the bill was elitist. "It's stupid and pompous," he said. "It reinforces the Harvard sterotype...
...think it's a legitimate complaint to say that this is classist or elitist. To say that is to assume that this [bill] is directed to exclude...I don't think that's what it proposes," he said, adding, "This is a return to the classic ideal of a liberal arts college...
This model is fundamentally an elitist one, one that misunderstands and degrades the content of what those outside the "chosen" circle have to say. It is even untenable as an elitist model: since no person's arguments can be free of personal interest, and no one is capable of fully conceiving some objectively defined version of the common good, Cotton is effectively calling for the establishment of an elite whose membership would consist of the empty set. Moreover, the very idea that there exists some singular and objective idea of the common good is contradictory to the idea of democratic...