Word: elitists
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...Facts: It’s no Rhodes, but on the up side, it’s more flexible and even more elitist. Keasbey draws from a few top American institutions, offering to fund study at Cambridge, Oxford, Wales, or Edinburgh. According to the Keasbey website, “the Scholarship may not be held by a married scholar. A nominee should not have expectations of marrying before completing two years of study abroad. If the scholar marries, the scholarship is forfeited...
...must secretly derive some satisfaction from their world. Otherwise, I’d be spending every Saturday night with a beer, good conversation, and the good company of world number one, hanging out in some public space where we would probably be debating the moral qualms of all-male, elitist organizations. I wouldn’t be excited by the prospect of the next garden party or themed event. But I’m not hanging out in public spaces, and I am shamefully psyched for the Boxer Rebellion party. It is not as though I am ignorant...
...lack of exceptional Harvard academic standards. This type of bigotry might appear to have an attenuated connection to the explicit, religious-based exclusion of Jews, but the overall goal of discrimination certainly resonates from these two examples. It is now all but dogma, and rightfully so, that discrimination is elitist and goes against the accepting values on which Harvard relies—values formulated in the cultural upheaval of the 1960s...
...follows O’Reilly in placing a series of talking points in the upper right corner of the screen. Colbert shares O’Reilly’s disdain for the media “elite,” but Colbert takes it further—he abhors elitist things like “dictionaries...
...snobbery!” are usually debate-ending ones. There is really not an effective retort to being called a snob, the meanness of the accusation being virtually the only factor working against its use. Typically, if one is ever accused of elitism or elitist sympathies, the only way out is a melodramatic, and often pathetic, “race to the bottom.” This race is essentially a contest over whose grandparents suffered more oppression or worked in a more degrading profession, and the rhetoric employed quickly reaches Ciceronian heights...