<story><title>The Yale Problem Begins in High School</title><url>http://heterodoxacademy.org/2015/11/24/the-yale-problem-begins-in-high-school/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lumberjack</author><text>These people act this way because they are elitist. They think they know what should be better than anyone else and therefore there is no need for debate or for rights like free speech.&lt;p&gt;I find that quite ironic because presumably, these people subscribe to left leaning ideologies. But maybe there isn&amp;#x27;t so much of a contradiction. They are simply more elitist than they are anything else.&lt;p&gt;They don&amp;#x27;t really stand for equality because they do not possess the humbleness to bring themselves to the level of the common person. They believe themselves to be intellectually and morally superior to the common Joe. And yet they want to dupe the common Joe into thinking that they will safeguard his interests while at the same time thinking so poorly of him!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>redthrowaway</author><text>I think &amp;quot;vanguardist&amp;quot; is a better term than &amp;quot;elitist&amp;quot;.  &amp;quot;Elitist&amp;quot; connotes a passive enjoyment of privilege, whereas these people see themselves much more as the enlightened few bringing the orthodox[1] to the unwashed masses by any means necessary.  They share far more in common with Communists who viewed it as their duty to shepherd the proletariat towards social consciousness than with the Oxbridge set who merely take what&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;rightfully&amp;quot; theirs without a second thought.&lt;p&gt;[1] in the literal, etymological sense</text></comment>
<story><title>The Yale Problem Begins in High School</title><url>http://heterodoxacademy.org/2015/11/24/the-yale-problem-begins-in-high-school/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lumberjack</author><text>These people act this way because they are elitist. They think they know what should be better than anyone else and therefore there is no need for debate or for rights like free speech.&lt;p&gt;I find that quite ironic because presumably, these people subscribe to left leaning ideologies. But maybe there isn&amp;#x27;t so much of a contradiction. They are simply more elitist than they are anything else.&lt;p&gt;They don&amp;#x27;t really stand for equality because they do not possess the humbleness to bring themselves to the level of the common person. They believe themselves to be intellectually and morally superior to the common Joe. And yet they want to dupe the common Joe into thinking that they will safeguard his interests while at the same time thinking so poorly of him!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>&amp;gt; these people subscribe to left leaning ideologies.&lt;p&gt;Might as well call them extreme-left, which is just as bad as extreme-right and the extreme ideologies that come with it. The left &amp;#x2F; right spectrum aren&amp;#x27;t polar opposites either, but it tends to be horseshoe-shaped, so you&amp;#x27;ll find some ideas that are dangerously close to those on the other side (#KillAll(White)Men is literally calling for ethnic &amp;#x2F; gender purging. Somehow it&amp;#x27;s not causing as much as an outrage as #KillAllJews would).</text></comment>