Elitism, NYT’s Style
This Sunday, we get a condescending piece in the New York Times about liberal Boulder, called “Twenty-Five Square Miles Surrounded by Reality.” The realists being, those who don’t recycle or ride their bikes to work because they know global warming is a myth.
I especially liked this, on the liberals favorite conservative, David Brooks:
The New York Times columnist David Brooks has made immense fun of it as a latte town of bourgeois bohemians with their in-your-jowls liberalism and an uncanny ability to accrue wealth while pretending to care only about following their creative visions. According to American City Business Journals, Boulder has a higher percentage of college and postcollege graduates than anywhere else in the country.
One doesn’t have to wonder how Brooks would react to a feature travel article portraying some rural small town in Colorado as Bible-thumping, prairie dog shooting, tobacco chewers, whom are impervious to the realities of, say, the Iraq War. Such a portrayal of stereotypes would be considered “elitist”, because the elites in DC think all it takes is a latte reference to endear them to the red necks they exploit to benefit the high rollers who invite them to their soirees.
Tags: boulder, david brooks, elitism