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In reply to the discussion: Has anyone here ever met a liberal elitist? [View all]mythology
(9,527 posts)For, the criteria is more or less do you think others aren't just wrong, but morally wrong for not agreeing with somebody.
For example people who claim everything on TV is garbage and that anybody who watches tv is dumb. Likewise I find some aspects of PETA or environmental groups who destroy things as protest to be elitist.
To an extent my liberal grandmother was as well. Her basic position in life was that she was right and if people were stupid enough to believe her when she made up things like 82% of people believe whatever point she was arguing, those people deserved to be fooled.
That said the Republicans are more prone to it due to the religious right thinking all those who don't agree with them are set to burn in hell.
For me elitism in that sense is about the attitude. I'm sometimes prone to it, especially when evidence on a subject is clear and people refuse to believe it.