“Deal or no Deal” - exposing elitism
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006 at 9:10 pm by carol
RT and I were watching “Deal or no Deal” the other evening. Yes, I know it’s mindless entertainment. Nevertheless, we were watching. There was a woman contestant who was from somewhere in the South. Her daughter was one of the three “supporters” who cheered for her. At one point in the game, Howie Mandel, asked the daughter a question. Her answer STILL haunts me. She said:
We southern girls may not be smart, but we’ve got heart.
She was probably around 20 years old - give or take a few years. Certainly younger than either of my children. It broke my heart to hear that at that young age she has already bought into the southerners-are-stupid line that seems so readily accepted throughout the country. She has listened to northern and western snobs long enough that she has started believing them. With one sentence, she exposed the results of their elitist crap.
Along a related line, I was reading another blog today - a “progressive” one - and a commenter referred to southern voters as “yahoos” and “racist rednecks”. Doesn’t sound very progressive to me. As a matter of fact, it sounds downright elitist and snobbish.
There is a lot of prejudice, elitism and discrimination in the world. No single race, gender, nationality or other group has a monopoly on it.
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