Peak Elitism at the NY Times

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Power Line
Steven Hayward
Oct. 3, 2017

I think it was Charles Murray who first described the pretentious wedding announcements in the New York Times as the “mergers and acquisitions page,” and certainly the typical mix of Stanford MBA working at an investment bank marries Harvard lawyer working at Steptoe and Johnson underlines a phenomenon that Mickey Kaus flagged in his 1992 book The End of Equality, namely, that the higher rates of intermarriage of highly educated elites would widen inequality. We’ve commented on this before, noting how the Times copy editing desk (what copy editing desk?, you ask—good question) might cover a wedding in Arkansas.

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Tarrytown is in Westchester County, just above NYC. A county of wealthy enclaves.

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Curious as to why antifa BLM Occupy never protest in places like that....hmmmmm

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Curious as to why antifa BLM Occupy never protest in places like that....hmmmmm

The leaders of revolutionary or seditious movements are too often from places like that.