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...Vuuren’s self-congratulatory Nebraska-bashing may indicate the group’s sincere hopes of effecting positive change, but such a vision also embodies the elitist idealism and lackluster social theory that characterizes the campaign. In this affair, the old adage rings true: The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Van Vuuren and his colleagues have fashioned themselves as warriors of gender equality while failing to consider what they’re promoting—essentially, a program that misrepresents the reality of modern sexual violence and reduces women to passive victims...
...lost. He attributed defeat to having raised barely $100,000. The next time he ran, in 2002, Davis had become adept at raising money, benefitting from donations from American Jewish groups concerned about Hilliard's views on Israel. Much of the African-American political establishment derided Davis as an elitist whose polished demeanor, Ivy League credentials and prosecutorial record made him inauthentically black. But this time, he won. One of the first congratulatory calls he received came from Obama, then an obscure Illinois state senator plotting his own U.S. Senate bid. Though they were among a handful of black...
...vote, Topolanek was defeated by the mainly center-left opposition, but he has also had to cope with sniping from his own president, Vaclav Klaus. Klaus has been outspoken about his criticisms of every aspect of the E.U., even telling the European Parliament last month that it was an elitist project comparable to Soviet-era dictatorships...
...these words have been used against white politicians in the past. John Kennedy was called inexperienced, and John Kerry elitist and arrogant, for reasons other than blackness. Granted, some words, like “welfare queens” and “busing,” have used blacks as wedges between whites, but the terms “inexperienced,” “socialist,” and “elitist” have no such racial dimension. The truth is that nearly any word can be construed as racial. By labeling every argument against...
...There’s a wave of anti-elitist populism sweeping the country as you read this. As Robert Reich, former U.S. labor secretary, puts it, “typical Americans are hurting very badly right now. They resent people who appear to be living high off a system dominated by insiders with the right connections.” Considering the repeated labeling of the money allocated for the National Endowment for the Arts in the stimulus bill “pork barrel spending,” it’s a real fear that the people...