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Also present is the lofty misanthropy of an elitist who can write off entire countries with the toss of an aphorism. "The whole of Greece," he writes, "seemed to me a cut-price theme park of broken marble, a place where you were harangued in a high-minded way about Ancient Greek culture while some swarthy little person picked your pocket." Then there is Albania, with its blighted trees, hectoring beggars and vandalized shacks of houses. This Third World country in Europe's midst, Theroux notes, "was brutalized, as though a nasty-minded army had swept through, kicking...
...real elitist view for a guy like this to stand up and say, "I don't think 4.5 million people should watch this. These people have as much right to watch their show as he has to watch 'Nightline...
...most controversial provisions, it would eliminate a requirement that the entire habitats of endangered species, not just the individual creatures, must be protected. Young says the change will protect property owners; environmentalists say it will doom animals. Even in his gentler moments, Young's distaste for elitist environmentalists is clear: he once called them a ''waffle-stomping, Harvard-graduating, intellectual bunch of idiots...
...simply reprehensible that the elitist powers-that-be at Harvard University have once again refused to do the right thing in order to maintain their sacred orthodoxy...
...sundry moral scolds upholding the alleged "true meaning" of civil rights, have been clamoring to denounce? Where is Pete Wilson while this woman proposes to travesty the principles of racial equality that our country holds dear? Why is Pat Buchanan not out there on the stump denouncing this elitist exercise in anti-white social engineering...