Elitist and uppity also mean "not like us." It's become a bad thing to be intellectually curious, open, and tolerant.
For goodness sake, ita, I hope the ER is able to help you.
I've been out of the abbey two days, I've beaten a lawman senseless, I've fallen in with criminals. I watched the captain shoot the man I swore to protect. And I'm not even sure if I think he was wrong.
Book ,'Serenity'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Beverly - Sep 04, 2008 12:52:19 pm PDT #7084 of 10003
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
hippocampus - Sep 04, 2008 12:53:52 pm PDT #7085 of 10003
not your mom's socks.
Two things: a decision tree someone forwarded to me about Sarah Palin from americanpregnancy.org [link]
and the breaking AP wire story about 5 colleges/ 6 years: [link]
I am still at work.
eta: holy crap, "uppity"?? Jeebus that's ragemaking.
Daisy Jane - Sep 04, 2008 12:54:13 pm PDT #7086 of 10003
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
P.M. Marc - Sep 04, 2008 12:54:49 pm PDT #7087 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Elitist and uppity also mean "not like us." It's become a bad thing to be intellectually curious, open, and tolerant.
Yeah, but uppity has VERY specific connotations that are very well known. It's rarely applied to the melainin impaired. And in this case, the case has long been made that "elitist" is being used as code for "uppity" in the traditional nasty sense, rather elitist being used in the Kerry sense. To see someone brashly willing to just flat out say it, no sugar coated coding, makes me sick to my stomach.
Glamcookie - Sep 04, 2008 12:56:46 pm PDT #7088 of 10003
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I like your Batman, DJ!!!
amych - Sep 04, 2008 12:58:04 pm PDT #7089 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Huh. True. And now I miss Phil Hartman all over again.
Gudanov - Sep 04, 2008 12:58:08 pm PDT #7090 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
DavidS - Sep 04, 2008 12:58:16 pm PDT #7091 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
To see someone brashly willing to just flat out say it, no sugar coated coding, makes me sick to my stomach.
And yet, it's good to have the code broken and laid out for everybody to see. Now that the media's done with it's not-so-covert bitch-bashing of Hilary, it looks like the racist spin will come fully to the fore.
Beverly - Sep 04, 2008 12:59:05 pm PDT #7092 of 10003
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Oh, I'm aware of the well-known connotation. But it *is* used, where I'm from, for anyone of any color "gettin' above their raisin'", which means, you know, going to college, skipping Sunday School, arguing with teachers, clergy, or legal or civil authorities with an assumption of intellectual parity.
DavidS - Sep 04, 2008 1:02:01 pm PDT #7093 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Bored, so here's my cubicle:
Which roundabout like leads me to the Five Against Venus MySpace page, where I've never been before.
Guess who's got a great voice?