I agree completely about people putting others down. I would call it more "bullying" than elitist. But that's just semantics. I also agree with the claim that

I agree completely about people putting others down. I would call it more "bullying" than elitist. But that's just semantics. I also agree with the claim that more disadvantaged people will make more noise to get noticed. That's because they have to. The alternative is to simply accept the fallacy that people from elite backgrounds are simply better than you. > There is also a tendency, in some of these people making a lot of noise, to do it in the form of diminishing others. So likewise, what many non-elite persons perceive is that, through various overt and subtle messages, that elites broadcast that they are better than non-elites. Perhaps through acts like social exclusion or hiring discrimination. I don't think that instances of a person saying "~~~I~~~ went to Harvard, and ~~~you~~~~ didn't so nyah" are all that common (but they do happen). I think the author gets this and does in fact rail against this practice as a form of bullying.