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Showing Original Post only (View all)Anthony Bourdain eviscerates privileged Eastern liberals' for utter contempt of working-class [View all]
Anthony Bourdain says East Coast liberals like himself are the reason why Donald Trump got elected.
In a new interview with Reason, the famous chef, author and host of CNN's Parts Unknown eviscerated the left for their condescension of working-class America.
'The utter contempt with which privileged Eastern liberals such as myself discuss red-state, gun-country, working-class America as ridiculous and morons and rubes is largely responsible for the up swell of rage and contempt and desire to pull down the temple that we're seeing now,' Bourdain said.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4077172/Anthony-Bourdain-eviscerates-privileged-Eastern-liberals-utter-contempt-working-class-Americans.html
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Anthony Bourdain eviscerates privileged Eastern liberals' for utter contempt of working-class [View all]
FarCenter
Dec 2016
OP
Anyone who is willing to destroy the country due to hurt feelings deserves the condescension.
LonePirate
Dec 2016
#2
And the far end of the spectrum of rhetoric coming from Trumpist Dumbfuckistan, people get killed.
baldguy
Dec 2016
#22
The real irony here is that the right-wingers scream about 'special snowflakes wanting safe spaces'
LeftishBrit
Dec 2016
#72
Another white or rich liberal who can afford Benedict Donald... why listen to these people?
uponit7771
Dec 2016
#7
The fact the term 'working-class' has been hijacked by the right and the left keeps using it
nini
Dec 2016
#9
"The contempt is not for the 'working-class' but those who voted with their racism, homophobia..."
Different Drummer
Dec 2016
#73
do you have any polling data to support your assertion? If not, I would
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2016
#49
I clicked on this thread intending to reply "You mean yourself, you smug asshole?"
Iggo
Dec 2016
#35
Bourdain is assuming everyone is like him. He is an extreme elitist. I doubt he thinks any of us
stevenleser
Dec 2016
#38
I have contempt for stupid, racist, hate-filled people regardless of whatever the hell they are.
BlueStater
Dec 2016
#50
There's some parts of the South where I suspect he'd get his ass kicked...
Buckeye_Democrat
Dec 2016
#56
I might point out to Anthony that if it wasn't for "privileged Eastern liberals," the people he is
Vinca
Dec 2016
#62