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  • noun Opposition to elitism.

Etymologies

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anti- +‎ elitism

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Examples

  • Beginning in the 1970s, the LaRouchites combined populist antielitism with attacks on leftists, environmentalists, feminists, gay men and lesbians, and organized labor.

    The level of stupid is just awesome. CC 2009

  • Those who evade this inherent conservatism of literacy in the name of multicultural antielitism are in effect elitists of an extreme sort.

    The Theory Behind the Dictionary: Cultural Literacy and Education 2002

  • It shows a single circus performance with Tati as one of the performers; the acts are less than spectacular, but the audience avails itself of Tati's invitation to join in, in an example of what Jonathan Rosenbaum has called Tati's "antielitism."

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Down deep, forces like populism, libertarianism and skepticism of government - throw in some cultural conservatism and a dash of antielitism and, according to Tea Party critics, some measure of residual racism - created the swell that swept over American politics in

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • Down deep, forces like populism, libertarianism and skepticism of government - throw in some cultural conservatism and a dash of antielitism and, according to Tea Party critics, some measure of residual racism - created the swell that swept over American politics in

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • It shows a single circus performance with Tati as one of the performers; the acts are less than spectacular, but the audience avails itself of Tati's invitation to join in, in an example of what Jonathan Rosenbaum has called Tati's "antielitism."

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • It shows a single circus performance with Tati as one of the performers; the acts are less than spectacular, but the audience avails itself of Tati's invitation to join in, in an example of what Jonathan Rosenbaum has called Tati's "antielitism."

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • He assumed her pugnacious antielitism struck a chord that still reverberated with people who even in good times couldn’t shake their sense of persecution.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • He assumed her pugnacious antielitism struck a chord that still reverberated with people who even in good times couldn’t shake their sense of persecution.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • He assumed her pugnacious antielitism struck a chord that still reverberated with people who even in good times couldn’t shake their sense of persecution.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

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