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This flies in the face of all the talk that this is the year of the anti-elite as represented by the Tea Party explosion.
Will Harvard grads win in the year of anti-elitism? Edward Schumacher-Matos 2010
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While Louis B. Mayer and MGM were making movies conveying an optimistic vision of God, country and family during the 1930s and early 1940s, Warner Bros. and smaller independents produced films like "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" 1939 that articulated anti-corporate, anti-elite messages challenging the power of the wealthy.
Steven J. Ross Steven J. Ross 2011
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But to pretend that Palin isn't part of the ruling elite (and thus ostensibly "part of the problem") as opposed to her self-construction as an anti-elite crusader, is to dangerously "misunderestimate" (to quote the quintessential example) the lockstep power of the media in constructing our shared reality.
Randall Amster: First Amendment Remedies: Hey, Sarah, Refudiate This Randall Amster 2011
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So maybe this is the year of the anti-elite, after all.
Will Harvard grads win in the year of anti-elitism? Edward Schumacher-Matos 2010
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Eventually, the right will disappear because it is anti-intellectual, anti-elite, and anti-learning.
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That would make this a fairly logical and consistent “anti-elite” (or, sigh, anti edumacation) attack.
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And I think that's feeding some of this anti-intellectual, anti-elite attitude that you're talking about, because they see people who don't have to abide by the rest of it like we do.
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And I think that's feeding some of this anti-intellectual, anti-elite attitude that you're talking about, because they see people who don't have to abide by the rest of it like we do.
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To link Islamophobia, hostile anti-elite views to violent acts I think is wrong.
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Eventually, the right will disappear because it is anti-intellectual, anti-elite, and anti-learning
hugovk commented on the word anti-elite
anti-elite, adj.
Pete Paphides, 21 October 2018:
December 31, 2018