All About McCain

[Strangler Lewis]

Rich people, like politicians, are fair game for generalized sniping.

Stores for rich people, even more so. Especially stores whose clothing lines seem to favor the size and coloring of rich Japanese and Arab women.

Oooh, let's have breakfast at Tiffany's.

[Snowflake]

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On the front page of Huffington Post, Palin's new shoes. All I could think of was "There's no place like Nome, there's no place like Nome"

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

Rich people, like politicians, are fair game for generalized sniping.

OK, I got it. It's OK to discriminate against the groups you don't like or find funny, but not against the ones you favor.

Very good.

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

OK, I got it. It's OK to discriminate against the groups you don't like or find funny, but not against the ones you favor.

Very good.

I favor the politicians I favor, but I have no problem condoning generalized sniping against politicians. If we truly lived in a world run by the gods of the Greek pantheon, I'd have no trouble generalizing that the gods were d*cks.
Now, such generalizations may show a certain narrowness of vision, and one's energy may be better spent, but, as a practical matter, I don't think generalizations by the weak against the powerful put as much negative energy in the world as generalizations that flow the other way.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

OK, I got it. It's OK to discriminate against the groups you don't like or find funny, but not against the ones you favor.

Very good.

Well, the bottom line for me is not that it's awful to be rich or to buy fine things, but that it's awful to pretend - particularly on a political front - that you're "just like everyone else," and call out others for being "elitist" when you are elitist yourself.