I think you’re critiquing the question about participating in a group that is described as “elite” and what you’re saying is basically that some people who identify as non-elitist may choose not to participate because they feel intimidated / don’t fit in or similar, and this will generate irrelevant results because my question intends to find out whether they are put off by it because they have some moral disagreement with it or feel that it makes a bad impression socially. Do I interpret this right?
No. The problem is that you gave the elitist nothing but lines where they think they themselves are the elite, giving no option but an uncharitable self-serving justification for why someone would be elitist. People who don’t think elitism is something the evil mutant enemies do might, for example, just think that there’s nothing wrong with paying much more attention to people with a history of displaying a very high level of skill and achievement, even though they don’t think they are much anything like such people themselves, and hence think themselves as elitist.
When you try to engage with people who actually hold an opinion and give them a poll that only has uncharitable justifications for the opinion, you end up with a downvoted poll.
Why on earth would people who think elitism can be a good thing always automatically think they themselves are elites?
I think you’re critiquing the question about participating in a group that is described as “elite” and what you’re saying is basically that some people who identify as non-elitist may choose not to participate because they feel intimidated / don’t fit in or similar, and this will generate irrelevant results because my question intends to find out whether they are put off by it because they have some moral disagreement with it or feel that it makes a bad impression socially. Do I interpret this right?
No. The problem is that you gave the elitist nothing but lines where they think they themselves are the elite, giving no option but an uncharitable self-serving justification for why someone would be elitist. People who don’t think elitism is something the evil mutant enemies do might, for example, just think that there’s nothing wrong with paying much more attention to people with a history of displaying a very high level of skill and achievement, even though they don’t think they are much anything like such people themselves, and hence think themselves as elitist.
When you try to engage with people who actually hold an opinion and give them a poll that only has uncharitable justifications for the opinion, you end up with a downvoted poll.