From the that-word-doesn't-mean-what-you-think-it-means dept...
"The writers and thinkers who signed the Harper’s letter affirmed their elitism, their refusal to be taken down by consensus."
#RichJuzwiak, 2020
https://www.jezebel.com/cancel-culture-isnt-a-culture-its-a-religion-1844322044
The word "consensus" has been tortured into doing so much work here it's hard to recognise. Challenging a consensus is not "elitism", it's dissent. If standing up to the tyranny of the majority is "elitism", then I guess anti-racism is "elitism" too.
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