I probably internalized something like this growing up:
There are people who are really good at something,
this is a good thing,
I’m not one of them,
but if I work very hard I could be.
I haven’t been very aware of social class issues or using ‘elitism’ as an actual term. So my quick association with someone calling out elitism as a bad thing is that they’re saying that people shouldn’t try to be very good at anything. People who grew up more social class aware might have quite different instant associations.
Hmm. That’s interesting. What’s interesting is that I relate with you completely about knowing that there are people who are good at things and wanting to work to become one, and not seeing anything wrong with it. I even want to defend the right to work to become good at things.
I probably internalized something like this growing up:
There are people who are really good at something,
this is a good thing,
I’m not one of them,
but if I work very hard I could be.
I haven’t been very aware of social class issues or using ‘elitism’ as an actual term. So my quick association with someone calling out elitism as a bad thing is that they’re saying that people shouldn’t try to be very good at anything. People who grew up more social class aware might have quite different instant associations.
Hmm. That’s interesting. What’s interesting is that I relate with you completely about knowing that there are people who are good at things and wanting to work to become one, and not seeing anything wrong with it. I even want to defend the right to work to become good at things.
But I don’t call that elitism.
Why do you?
Because that’s what I think the people who say LW should be more elitist are saying.