Re: Ricky Gervais as Master of Ceremonies, Not Civility
"Karl" <[email protected]>
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Yea, that is pretty much where I was twitching too.... -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lance McLain Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 1:13 PM To: DADL (off topic) Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] Ricky Gervais as Master of Ceremonies, Not Civility I jerked too. I have no problem with elite being "the best" however too often these days the baggage that comes with elite is that it has come at the expense of exploiting the non-elite. regards, -Lance On Jan 17, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Karl wrote: > Its mostly just me I think. The word elite has been used fairly > negatively recently, so I think this was just my jerking knee. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf > Of Peter T. Chattaway > Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 10:18 AM > To: DADL (off topic) > Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] Ricky Gervais as Master of Ceremonies, Not > Civility > > On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Karl wrote: > >>>>> Aaron Sorkin alluded to the culture wars, thanking the women in >>>>> the room for proving to his daughter that elite is not a bad >>>>> word, its an aspirational one. >>>> >>>> Honestly I am not even sure what that meansis it apparently now ok >>>> to be an elitist? >>> >>> "Elite" is good. "Elitist", maybe not so much. >>> Kind of like the distinction between "Islam" and "Islamist". >> >> **either sounds a bit arrogant. > > Whatever. I want to watch movies made by the *best* filmmakers, not > just average filmmakers. And I want my country to be led by the > *best* politicians, not just average politicians. Etc., etc., etc. > > What's so bad about *that*? > > -- > dadl-ot mailing list > http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot > > > > -- > dadl-ot mailing list > http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot