Someone once called me an elitist. Someone who clearly confused elitism with having high standards.
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Elite is derived from third parties. Excellence comes from within. I am an excellent outlier in my best moments.
Yep. It happens. I've gotten used to it.
That has been so for a while.
Words lost their objective meanings for subjective ones.
Besides, they know less words, so they use a word with different meanings in different instances.
They are functional illiterate.