Post by Souriquois on Oct 7, 2016 15:14:42 GMT -4
This seems to be the case.
You have highly educated and rich people, politicians, railing against certain groups (particularly Muslims these days) and playing white identity politics and whenever they are criticized for their divisive campaigns, call their components "elites" and start slamming that class... however, these people are often part of the elite.
This happens to with supporters of these politicians. I have been called an "elite" by people who support these right-wing populist worldviews (*cough* Woden *cough*), and these people slam elites, and call people who disagree with them, regardless of their standing in society, "elite".
You see this with such politicians in Europe, and also in Donald Trump, and here in Canada with the Tory leadership candidate Kellie Leitch, who slams anybody who criticizes her Islamophobic campaign, in the Conservative Party and outside of it, as being "elite". Perish the thought that she herself comes from a political family and was a professor and a cabinet minister. No, not elite at all. Here is a bit on her:
And she never wants to address the real issues her country faces, no, she scapegoats immigrants, particularly Muslim ones. She was responsible for many of the Islamophobic flubs of Stephen Harper, and she lost him the 2015 election. I actually do not believe Stephen Harper was racist, though he was a right-wing populist, and rose to power amid resentment of what he called the "Laurentian Elites". Unlike Donald Trump and so-called "far-right" politicians in Europe, he was not a know-nothing populist who ran on one issue, he was a statesman in his own right.
She repeats the similar right-wing populist rhetoric here. People who oppose her racism are corrupt, self-hating, unpatriotic, treasonous elites.
But the media eats that shit up, because it's controversial. In the case of Leitch, and European populist leaders, nobody knew who they were before:
They try to market racism as being something that is of the common people. I feel that is an insult to the common people. Remember, they are elites, and they are playing games with us (just like how the concept of "race" as we know it was invented in the first place).
But, well, she is not being Canadian at all, really. Not to mention, her predecessor Stephen Harper, actually believed Canada's national identity was based on myths and wanted to rewrite it. So who is being an unpatriotic traitor here?
Rest of the article here.
www.cbc.ca/news/politics/leitch-elite-surgeon-minister-scholar-1.3795074
You have highly educated and rich people, politicians, railing against certain groups (particularly Muslims these days) and playing white identity politics and whenever they are criticized for their divisive campaigns, call their components "elites" and start slamming that class... however, these people are often part of the elite.
This happens to with supporters of these politicians. I have been called an "elite" by people who support these right-wing populist worldviews (*cough* Woden *cough*), and these people slam elites, and call people who disagree with them, regardless of their standing in society, "elite".
You see this with such politicians in Europe, and also in Donald Trump, and here in Canada with the Tory leadership candidate Kellie Leitch, who slams anybody who criticizes her Islamophobic campaign, in the Conservative Party and outside of it, as being "elite". Perish the thought that she herself comes from a political family and was a professor and a cabinet minister. No, not elite at all. Here is a bit on her:
Oddly enough, Kellie Leitch is an orthopedic pediatric surgeon with a master's degree in business administration. She's also a university professor, and helped found a graduate course of study at the Richard Ivey School.
I use "oddly," because despite that elite level of education and accomplishment, she's chosen to sit as an Opposition backbencher, and surely repairing the bodies and saving the lives of children is more rewarding work than clamouring for some attention in Ottawa, or, as Liberal minister Carolyn Bennett so succinctly called her time in opposition, "yapping."
Leitch did manage to attain the rank of labour minister for a couple of years under Stephen Harper, after a stint as a minister's assistant, but today, five years after she first won her seat, most Canadians probably have little idea who she is.
Which is a problem, because she wants to lead her party, and needs some recognition.
I use "oddly," because despite that elite level of education and accomplishment, she's chosen to sit as an Opposition backbencher, and surely repairing the bodies and saving the lives of children is more rewarding work than clamouring for some attention in Ottawa, or, as Liberal minister Carolyn Bennett so succinctly called her time in opposition, "yapping."
Leitch did manage to attain the rank of labour minister for a couple of years under Stephen Harper, after a stint as a minister's assistant, but today, five years after she first won her seat, most Canadians probably have little idea who she is.
Which is a problem, because she wants to lead her party, and needs some recognition.
So, she's not talking about reforms our health-care system desperately needs, or eliminating trade barriers, or the nosebleed levels of personal debt Canadians are carrying.
Instead, Dr. Kellie Leitch, surgeon and distinguished scholar at one of the best business schools in Canada, has decided to denounce "the elites."
Seriously.
Among the elites her campaign has targeted is Andrew Scheer, the former House Speaker, who also happens to be running for the party leadership. Scheer, a right-leaning conservative, is so elite that he holds a bachelor of arts degree, and except for six elite months working in insurance, has made a living getting elected to office.
Scheer demonstrated his hopeless elitism by announcing his campaign in, of all places, Ottawa's National Press Theatre, a notorious nexus of elitism, where, according to Nick Kouvalis, Leitch's campaign manager, he "pandered to the whinging media hordes."
Instead, Dr. Kellie Leitch, surgeon and distinguished scholar at one of the best business schools in Canada, has decided to denounce "the elites."
Seriously.
Among the elites her campaign has targeted is Andrew Scheer, the former House Speaker, who also happens to be running for the party leadership. Scheer, a right-leaning conservative, is so elite that he holds a bachelor of arts degree, and except for six elite months working in insurance, has made a living getting elected to office.
Scheer demonstrated his hopeless elitism by announcing his campaign in, of all places, Ottawa's National Press Theatre, a notorious nexus of elitism, where, according to Nick Kouvalis, Leitch's campaign manager, he "pandered to the whinging media hordes."
She repeats the similar right-wing populist rhetoric here. People who oppose her racism are corrupt, self-hating, unpatriotic, treasonous elites.
According to Leitch, the media elites are always "blowing gaskets" about her campaign, because she's so outrageously patriotic and un-elite.
After posing for the cover of Maclean's magazine hoisting a big Canadian flag over her shoulder, she announced that "self-hating Canadian elites" were upset because they "can't stand the idea of a proud Conservative standing up for Canada."
That all reporters are elite, particularly the ones in Ottawa, is established conservative orthodoxy, but Leitch is now raising the question of what they hate more: themselves, or being Canadian.
After posing for the cover of Maclean's magazine hoisting a big Canadian flag over her shoulder, she announced that "self-hating Canadian elites" were upset because they "can't stand the idea of a proud Conservative standing up for Canada."
That all reporters are elite, particularly the ones in Ottawa, is established conservative orthodoxy, but Leitch is now raising the question of what they hate more: themselves, or being Canadian.
Anyway, the line about the elite National Press Theatre (which, incidentally, Stephen Harper used, if only rarely) was pretty clever. Leitch's team was desperate for some coverage, and deliberately baiting the elite national media that way paid off.
The press gallery went for it like gannets, sort of the same way I'm doing here.
"Instead of 15 or 20 [media] mentions, we got 850," says a Leitch campaign insider who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The press gallery went for it like gannets, sort of the same way I'm doing here.
"Instead of 15 or 20 [media] mentions, we got 850," says a Leitch campaign insider who spoke on condition of anonymity.
But tossing red meat — sorry, filet mignon — to the elite media isn't the point. The point is to convince the Conservative Party base it has a choice between that darned gal Kellie, who shops at the dollar store and loves a double-double at Timmy's, and the rest of the Tory contenders, who in all likelihood love hot yoga and hate hockey and read the Globe and Mail.
"Elitism is not a function of income or education," explains the Leitch strategist. "It's about being out of touch with average people."
"Elitism is not a function of income or education," explains the Leitch strategist. "It's about being out of touch with average people."
Which is, actually, a very American view.
Rest of the article here.
www.cbc.ca/news/politics/leitch-elite-surgeon-minister-scholar-1.3795074