Reply #139: If you read books, you're an elitist [View All]

[Prophet 451]

I'm with Bill Maher on this one, the word "elitist" seems to mean if you're not a shitkicker from Kansas, you're with the terrorists.

Apparently, it's something to do with the arrogance of the coasts or the educated. Of course, the down-home, "just folks" people who endlessly talk about how humble they are, how patriotic, how they're much more "real Americans", could never be called arrogant. Apparently, "elitist" is what you get called when you admit the fact that some people are just plain dumb whereas if you treat the voter like a child, say exactly what they want to hear and pretend to be a shitkicker, you're not an elitist.

The irony here is that the pious volk in the heartland are far more elitist, far more exclusionary than anyone on the coasts. The lauding of flag pins, humility, rampant nationalism, the restment of anyone different, anyone who is educated, the not just simple ignorance but active hostility to education, those are truly elitist values, truly exclusionary. The heartland volk are their own form of elitist, an elitism they're fashioned from the belief that small-town values are superior.