What is an Elitist?
An elitist is a person who believes that society should be lead by a select group of people. In most of the Western world, an elitist would be a person who favored those with wealth, power, education, and/or intellect over the more workaday “common person.” Elitist can also mean pertaining to elitism, and it’s a term that has become increasingly pejorative. When a society has elite members, often structured on wealth or education, many people can belong to an elite or select class, but that doesn’t necessarily make them elitist in a negative sense because many people in the elite are quite capable of empathy for people not as privileged as themselves.
An elitist is a person who believes that society should be lead by a select group of people. In most of the Western world, an elitist would be a person who favored those with wealth, power, education, and/or intellect over the more workaday “common person.” Elitist can also mean pertaining to elitism, and it’s a term that has become increasingly pejorative. When a society has elite members, often structured on wealth or education, many people can belong to an elite or select class, but that doesn’t necessarily make them elitist in a negative sense because many people in the elite are quite capable of empathy for people not as privileged as themselves. In recent years, the term has been used in a much looser way, and people (especially politicians) who have had access to wealth, power, or superior education have been labeled elitists. The basic implication here is that all people belonging to the upper strata of society will discriminate against other classes, and cannot possibly unders
