The snobbery of Ithaca's enlightened

the Ithaca Journal ^ | Thursday, October 17, 2002 | By Michael Serino

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Two women were having a conversation at the table next to me in a downtown Ithaca restaurant.

"When I first moved to Ithaca I was a vegetarian," said the elder of the two, an attractive woman in her early 30s. "It just seemed like eating animals was wrong, so I didn't eat anything that once had a face."

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I wasn't eating meat or fish at the time. I did eat eggs, though -- I justified it because I was pro-choice.

Man, you just can't make this stuff up...

Ithaca . . . is a snobby town...

I wonder: is it snobbery? Or is it a manifestation of the almost near extinction of non-liberal voices in Ithaca?

With no conservatives or moderates, are the liberals starting to draw distinctions amongst themselves, casting out those who are not sufficiently pure of ideology? Almost like a communist purge?

Something to consider. After all, this IS the City of Evil we are talking about here.

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[Behind Liberal Lines]

City of Evil. Bump

[dirtboy]

This is from another story on another topic, but it fits sooo well here. From The Dowd Rule

Elitism, to be sure, is as old as human society. But never in recorded history has a less cerebrally, morally, or spiritually elite Elite looked down their noses at the majority of their countrymen. The minimum requirement for membership in the intelligentsia used to be, well, intelligence. This is no longer the case. Rather, what is now required is the mere sense of your own superiority, the smirky confidence that flows from an undergraduate grasp of history, philosophy, and literature, and which can only be sustained by a maniacal deafness to counterarguments. Listening to your political opponents is deadly under such circumstances; they must therefore be dismissed, a priori, as stupid.

[mvpel]

Then there's the West Coast equivalent:

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Apparently, however, Cornell has more leftists per capita than even Berkley.

[Oberon]

"Vanity of vanities, all is vanity," as the artist formerly known as Prince once put it so eloquently, and he was right in more ways than one.

Did anyone else happen to catch that this quote isn't original with TAFKAP?

[Grammy]

"The virtucrat is any man or woman who is certain that his or her political views are not merely correct but deeply, morally righteous in the bargain,"

When one dumps God, one needs to fill the "virtue void" with something. This is humanism's version.

Ithaca (means city of spirits) is indeed the city of evil. Mr. Grammy is there as we speak, and hating every minute of it.

[91B]

Great column.

[cynicom]

In my time, I suffered thru the Cornell PHDs (paper hanging doctors)... Not all, but most, were insufferable. Now and again it became necessary to tweak their snooty noses directly, on which occasion they usually became red faced and started stammering. Of course we were polite but to the point. Out of their own rarefied campus atmosphere, they had problems breathing and dealing with people that were uninterested and unimpressed with their attitude.

[Phantom Lord]

Did anyone else happen to catch that this quote isn't original with TAFKAP?

I call him "Symbol Guy".

[BlueLancer]

Or this ...

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences."
C. S. Lewis

[nicmarlo]

Glad to be out of Ithaca bump. Hello BLL.

[Fixit]

Ithaca (means city of spirits)

One of my friends at Cornell told me that phonetically "Ithaca" sounded like "Brush your teeth" in Korean.

Only now I realize that it should have been "Wash your mouth."

[Behind Liberal Lines]

As noted before, Ithaca was originally called "Sodom" in frontier days.

[Michael Barnes]

I call him Purple Peter Puffer....but to each their own... ;)

[NativeNewYorker]

bttt

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I call him Purple Peter Puffer..

No, that's Barney Frank. ;-)

[weegee]

Liberalism vis a vis political correctness is a cult.

Subscribe to one platform of the left (say environmentalism) and slowly you will be made to bend your position on meat eating (it takes land to graze those animals that you eat, and those animals may be mistreated, or genetically modified, and speaking of mistreatment "did you hear about the workers in a third world factory making consumer goods for Amerika?", and our non-profit charter really must provide health care benefits for non-married same sex live-in partners; "say are you going to the Bush didn't win rally? Everyone will be there, the Greens, Food Not Bombs, PETA, ...).

The ringleaders of each local sect of the cults make sure to chant the mantras of the liberal left. They may not convince everyone to change their "evil" ways but they will certainly silence any debate, who wants to publicly be called a heretic and excommunicated from an "elite" circle?

[weegee]

The Hell that these libs live in is of their own construction. They believe that conservatives are angry villagers from a Frankenstein film, that a strict diet code must be followed for moral reasons, that everyone seeks to exploit the downtroden, that no one cares anymore, and that this life is all there is. They are miserable and don't accept that they could change their lot in life with just a change in perspective.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

FYI: Serino's column, or at least the part about the woman who was pro-choice, made today's Wall St. Journal online:

What About the Rights of the Unhatched?
Michael Serino, a columnist for the Ithaca (N.Y.) Journal, reports overhearing a woman in an Ithaca restaurant say: "At first Ithaca seemed perfect. There were so many veggie entrees on every menu. I wasn't eating meat or fish at the time. I did eat eggs, though--I justified it because I was pro-choice."