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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please, please stop. "Elitist" is not the right word. You mean UMC and UMC is not elitist.[/quote]

What DCUM considers to be “UMC” is, in fact, elite.  This thread is exhibit A.  [/quote]

NP. Elite is not the same as elitist.

DCUM is addicted to using “ist” words and most people don’t seem to know what they mean. It’s not racist to notice that someone is a different race or to make factual statements about differences. It’s not elitist to do an elite activity, no matter how expensive it is. [/quote]

WELL SAID.  [/quote]

But it is racist to deny that certain advantages accrue to white people as a result of their white privilege, just as it is elitist to deny that access to certain activities is the result of the economic advantages that are only available to the elite.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/elitist

Elitist: organized for the good of a few people who have special interests or abilities: 
Many remember sports at school as elitist, focusing only on those who were good at them.

[in this case, the “special abilities” are time and money]

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