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Takket

(21,528 posts)
Mon May 14, 2018, 07:05 PM May 2018

"Elitist"

Elitist....

A word that has been tattooed on Democrats.... the party of helping the impoverished and middle class.

Today I saw images that were more "elitist" than anything I've ever seen in my life. Palestinians with nothing to their name, hurling rocks while the Israelis fire back with bullets, a mismatch where all the casualties are on one side...........

meanwhile.............. in Jerusalem, a red carpet affair with the richest of the rich toasting with one hand, while extending the middle finger with the other. If that wasn't enough, a public chastising from Jared Kushner blaming those dying for bringing about their own death. It was a scene of opulence and smug self serving satisfaction that would have made Pre-revolution French aristocracy blush.


These are the people that call us "elitist".

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unblock

(52,116 posts)
1. rw use of the term "elitist" has long been orwellian. supremacists are by definition elitist.
Mon May 14, 2018, 07:13 PM
May 2018

in fact their whole point is that claim that they are somehow superior (in this case by virtue of their skin color).

it's elitism is its truest form.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
2. Please recall that there were others besides Rs who used that term against Dems
Mon May 14, 2018, 07:27 PM
May 2018

And continue to do so to this day...

Can't mention any names.

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