Are you an elitist?
Ben Shapiro can help you find out.
This election cycle has exposed an enormous divide across the country. It's not the divide between black and white; it's not even the divide between liberals and conservatives. It's the divide between elitists and the rest of us.
Elitism is a state of mind. Not everyone in New York and Los Angeles is afflicted by it, and not everyone from Jackson, Mississippi is free from it. Elitism is the feeling of superiority enjoyed by certain people based on their income, education and nuanced value system. Elitism carries with it a strong hint of "sophisticated" Europeanism, as well as a large helping of atheistic skepticism.
Worried that you're an elitist? Here's how you can tell if you are.
You're an elitist if you love "Brokeback Mountain," but think that John Wayne movies are jingoistic expressions of outdated American machismo.
You're an elitist if you worry that Sarah Palin hunts moose, but aren't worried that Barack Obama wants to meet personally with dictators.
You're an elitist if you thought Colin Powell was less "authentically black" than Barack Obama until Powell endorsed Obama.
You're an elitist if you think that only bitter people unhappy with their lives cling to the Bible.
You're an elitist if you quote the Book of Matthew to justify socialism, cite the Book of John to defend Bill Clinton, but write off the Book of Romans as "obscure," or deride the Old Testament as a collection of antiquated messages about shellfish and animal sacrifices.
You're an elitist if you think that President Bush is stupid because he says "nucular," while Joe Biden is a genius even though he thinks the word "jobs" has three letters.
You're an elitist if you think Joe the Plumber's income and license status are more important than the question he asked Barack Obama.
You're an elitist if you believe that anyone who supports the standard of a married man and woman raising a child is a bigot.
You're an elitist if you think Bill Ayers is just a professor of English.
You're an elitist if you believe Bill Maher's new movie, "Religulous," accurately depicts religious Christians and Jews.
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You're an elitist if you worry what the Europeans think of us.
You're an elitist if you think public school teachers are qualified to inform your children about sex, but parents aren't qualified to teach their children basic math.
You're an elitist if you think the government should manage the health care system even though it can't manage to keep the tax code within a 10,000 page limit.
You're an elitist if you think transgenders ought to have their own bathrooms for privacy reasons, but public distribution of pornography is fine.
You're an elitist if you think that pro-life folks are fascists unmotivated by true sympathy for the unborn.
You're an elitist if you know what arugula is but don't know who Jimmie Johnson is.
You're an elitist if your name is Barack Obama. Chances are that you're an elitist if you support him and you aren't being hired by ACORN to do so, too.
7 comments:
Oh no! I know what arugula is :(
Are you an elitist if you spend $150,000 on clothes at Saks and Barneys in a month?
No.
You're an elitist if you say this:
"But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
--Barack Obama, addressing fellow multi-millionaires at an exclusive fundraiser in San Francisco.
How about you're elitist if......you give 2 million dollars to your cronies but can't be bothered to give more than $300 a year to charity?
(OK, up it to a whopping $900.)
Then add that it's more patriotic to pay more taxes!
How about you're an elitist if....you're one of a select few that are "in" on an upcoming "generated crisis"? (Generated by whom I'd like to know!)
Would an elitist dismiss the above statement as "a rhetorical flourish"?
Is it elitist to be planning manufactured (generated) responses to future manufactured (generated) crises when you haven't even won an election yet?!
Obama the elitist: http://iwanski.blogspot.com/2008/10/sensible-shoes.html
Posted by Anonymous to FREEDOM EDEN at 2:17 PM, October 26, 2008
Why shouldn't we worry about what Europe and the rest of the world thinks of us. Hello? We don't live in isolation. We NEED other countries (Where have you been this past month)? And besides, I don't know about you, but I'm not keen about being embarrassed about the country I live in, especially when travelling abroad. Oh, but perhaps, you've never even been anywhere Mary, which would explain a thing or two.
What's your problem?
Give your opinion.
Why attack me?
That IS my opinion Mary. Travel gives people valuable perspective on the world AND our own country. Perspective you don't have, judging from some of the things you say.
If I were attacking you, I actually would have call you IGNORANT. Instead, was trying to be nice.
Hey, where's the rest of my comment? Yelling enough that you censor people's comments. But edit them too?
Trying to be nice?
Yeah, no. I don't think so.
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