#elitist

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

He’s an evil son-of-a-bitch. He’s the richest member of the Senate and spends his summers cruising around Italy on his private yacht which is the size of a battleship. He once spent over a million dollars to make a revenge video against a random woman that criticized him in a Florida coffee shop. Bat Boy needs to go.

#rick scott #republican assholes #traitor #oligarch #anti-democratic Republican oligarch #fascist #elitist #1% club

[i-peregrin]

you know something that kind of upsets me. is the elitist attitudes of a lot ( not all 💚 ) of tolkienites. some of y’all will act as if anyone who hasn’t read EVERY book, every subscript, every anecdote, and not just once but at least twenty times, studied and devoted and memorized… somehow isn’t a ‘real’ tolkien fan or doesn’t ‘deserve’ to enjoy his world

it’s kind of like the heavy metal situation when eddie munson’s character blew up so much.

just because someone gets into a fandom/interest ‘late,’ doesn’t mean they aren’t a real fan. just because someone is a more casual fan, doesn’t mean they aren’t a real fan.

i’m here to extend a warm, welcoming hand to any and all who have discovered the world of tolkien through watching the rings of power ( or in fact, through eddie munson, since i mentioned him already and he does have tolkien ties! ).

don’t pay the elitists any mind. are tolkien’s works fucking wondrous? YES! but are they long and endless and often quite dull? yes. and not everyone has the time or energy to devote to consuming them. and that’s okay.

those works will always be there if you ever have the desire for them! and if not, you keep doing you, enjoying the movies or shows or fanfics or whatever other facet of tolkien’s ideas you prefer 💚

tolkien’s magic is for everyone.

#the lord of the rings #tolkien #jrr tolkien #tolkienite #elitist #gatekeeping #stop #psa #nerds #nerd culture #eddie munson #rings of power #trop #lotr #fandom

[pharosproject]

Let them buy EVs!

#ToneDeaf #Elitist #Haughty #Aristocratic #Democrat #ElectricVehicle #ElectricVehicles #Expensive #MarieAntoinette #OutOfTouch #GasPrices #LetThemEatCake #Debbie Stabenow #tone deaf #electric vehicles #marie antoinette #out of touch #gas prices #let them eat cake #EVs

[ladymacabrebeth]

You're not any better by making fun of those less intelligent than you. If you're so keen on improving the world, then help and educate those below your merits.

Lady Macabre Beth

#intj #intp #entj #entp #istj #istp #estj #estp #capricorn #leo #aries #virgo #elitism #elitist #merit #merits #meritocracy #toxicmeritocracy #academia #toxicacademieculture #meritocratic #toxicacademia #toxicmeritocraticculture #toxicelitism #toxicelitists #education

[howifeltabouthim]

What were this woman's troubles to me? I had miseries of my own; and worse miseries than her coarse nature could ever have to endure.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon, from Lady Audley’s Secret

#selfish #suffering #comparison #comparison is the thief of joy #lack of empathy #lack of understanding #disparate #misery #quotes #lit #words #excerpts #quote #literature #classics #mary elizabeth braddon #lady audley's secret #elitist

[writingatdusk]

I’m currently reading The Secret History, and loving it.

But…

I may be identifying with the main character a bit too much. I read some quotes to my therapist today and we both were laughing so hard because, yikes, this book called me out and its hilarious. And I’m only on page 79.

Here are some quotes so far that hit a little too close to home, or directly threw a rock into the window of the home:

“I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.” (Did’t share THAT w/ my therapist)

“I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.” (Hahaha! Um, I’m autistic Richard so it’s called a Special Interest… Does anyone else think that RIchard Papen would be on the spectrum???)

And this abbreviated quote that sums up this last half of the year:

“I suppose I was only a little depressed, now the novelty of it had worn off… I thought I was sick, though I don’t believe I really was; I was just cold all the time and unable to sleep, sometimes no more than an hour or two a night.” (Though, I ended up actually being sick and having reactions to the meds i was on, but still. If you have depression, the novelty does wear off some days and its just more annoying than anything.)

And then I read this, and never felt more called out by a book in my life. Richard decided to read his favorite novel, The Great Gatsby, to make himself feel better but:

“…of course, it only made me feel worse, since in my own humorless state I failed to see anything except what i construed as certain tragic similarities between Gatsby and myself.” (… That’s what I was doing with Richard Papen, and I was starting to get concerned. But it is making me feel better now because it was so on point that it has to be hilarious. Luckily, Richard and I aren’t totally alike.)

But still

Yikes. And LOL!

#the secret history #richard papen #donna tartt #autistic characters #autistic girl #reading #dark academia books #book quote #dark academia #autism #amreading #calledout #idk what else to tag #elitist #dark acadamia quotes

[republicanidiots]

#soledad obrien #politics #elitist #david brooks #republican #education

[vox-anglosphere]

can you not tag things as "community" like whats the point of tagging your posts as the nebulous concept of a community

Dear Anonymous: On which of my posts did it appear? It's a term I seldom use for the very reason you mentioned.

Oh, on the Holly Village post in Highgate I see now. The original tag was 'gated community', but it sounded snobbish so I shortened it.

#Holly Village #Highgate #London #gated community #elitist

[lastsamaritan-blog]

No fr the title "Grammar Nazi" is way too negative for my deep-rooted love for the language . So by all means I now consider myself a "Language Elitist" . 👑

#english #grammar #grammarnazi #booksbooksbooks #readers #god complex #elitist #above all #bibliophile #language #on love #loveislove

[antekythera]

Gun Owners of America (GOA), a gun rights lobbying group, sued New York State Police Superintendent Kevin P. Bruen in August, seeking to block the legislation. In response to the lawsuit, Bruen’s lawyers argued in a court filing that the CCIA’s “good moral character” standard is deeply rooted in Anglo-American legal tradition and should therefore be upheld by the court.

“From the early days of English settlement in America, the colonies sought to prevent Native American tribes from acquiring firearms, passing laws forbidding the sale and trading of arms to Indigenous people,” the filing reads.

Bruen’s lawyers also note that Catholics were barred from owning firearms, both in England and in colonial America, due to their suspected disloyalty.

“It proves what GOA has been saying for decades, which is that the origin of gun control is racist,” Aidan Johnston, GOA’s director of federal affairs, told the Daily Caller. “Gun laws come from a majority trying to suppress or dominate or control a minority, whether it be a minority of Catholics in early America, or a minority of Native Americans when there’s colonials trying to take over the continent.”

In a response to Bruen’s filing, GOA released a brief Monday detailing ways in which “good moral character” laws were used to restrict both First and Second Amendment rights from minorities.

“Georgia’s 1840’s slave codes, much like the CCIA, prohibited the exercise of First Amendment rights without government licensure, prohibiting any ‘person of color’ from being ‘allowed to preach or exhort without written license,’ one of the qualifications of which was proof of ‘the good moral character of the applicant,'” GOA wrote in their response to the filing.

“We’re pointing out that slave codes … are also the historical basis for denying people their right to carry a firearm on good moral character, obviously in an attempt to show that the root of this requirement is racist and unconstitutional and should be struck down,” Johnston told the Caller.

#gun control #gun control is oppression #racist #elitist

[slowlywisecolor]

Do you ever like, waste a perfectly good joke on someone with zero humor? like I have the best dad jokes ( im a teenaged girl but...) but my mother just looks me in the eyes like "ArE yOU sERioUS" um... beg your pardon you raised a master.

what do you call a man in a ten feet hole?

Dug

#dad jokes #punny #mother get my shit together #its been 10 minutes im over the harry potter dream thing #elitist #best chameleon ever #comedian not chameleon

[ladymacabrebeth]

Ironic how some people who preach about being compassionate toward the poor are the same people who look down on those who work honest jobs. If you're keen on helping them, befriend them instead of leaking your embarrassing double standards, fake activism, and elitist prejudice.

Lady Macabre Beth

#fakeactivism #performativeactivism #elitist #elitistprejudice #prejudice #doublestandards #compassion #empathy #honestjobs

[howifeltabouthim]

Reservations that must be made months, if not years, in advance, though we made an exception tonight for Sophie of Woods Beyond, a diva, icon, goddess, and personal hero of mine.

Soman Chainani, from Quests for Glory

#humor #over the top #diva #icon #goddess #personal hero #sophie of woods beyond #iconic #elitist #reservations #restaurant #five star restaurant #exclusive #celebrity #dialogue #funny #quests for glory #soman chainani #the school for good and evil #characterization #waiting list #cut the line #status

[dragonssxheart]

Elitist - Square and Compass

Through the unknown I pave the way to what will become Through the unknown I pave the way to what will become There's nothing left for me

#Elitist #Square and Compass #Reshape Reason #Heavy Rotation

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)