Word: elitists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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QUOTE OF NOTE: "I'm not an elitist. I'm not personally wealthy, and I don't just come around when I'm running for office...
...staff's position seems to be that final clubs are bad because they are exclusive and elitist, so let's support new restrictions that will make them even more exclusive and elitist. Perhaps the staff feels that by turning the final clubs back into highly restricted gentlemens's clubs, they will somehow wither and disappear. This is dubious at best; they have been here for almost a century and aren't going anywhere; we should advocate that they open themselves up to the rest of the community, not vice-versa...
Those who object to fraternities (and final clubs) usually do so on two grounds. The first is pragmatic: They're a bad element, they promote drunkenness and endanger women, and they fragment the campus social scene. The second is more fundamental: Single sex social institutions are discriminatory and elitist, and hence we can't condone them morally...
...social institutions on fundamental moral grounds are ironically adopting a much weaker argument. It is tempting to look at fraternities and final clubs and say, "Hey, they don't allow women to join [they're exclusive], and they don't accept people based on their personality [they're elitist]. How can we possibly condone that...
...simple answer to this is that life is inherently exclusive and elitist. Every time you choose not to hang out with a person because you find him or her boring, or annoying, you are being elitist. Every time you plan a rough-and-tumble game of football and call only your guy friends, you are being exclusive...