One is aspirational, driven by the illusion that access to power or privilege will make you more powerful or privileged; the other is the "snobbery of contempt," an assumption that those outside your tribe can be treated as if not fully human.
B. Big business, Wall Street, and the powerful and privileged who represent them.
It is a beast that feeds on scandal and particularly delights in the flesh of the powerful and privileged.
Both movements are doggedly anti-establishment — distrusting politically powerful and privileged elites and the institutions those elites inhabit.
We felt powerful and privileged when it came to being women (and, let's face it, only during freshman year did we learn to actually call ourselves women).
Concern has mounted in some quarters of the party — and anger among citizens — over the emergence of a powerful and privileged elite.
While "Social Network" fictionalizes Mark Zuckerberg, it mines the truth of an era — from the ability of the powerful and privileged to manipulate the system to the collapse of loyalty as a prized American virtue at the top of that economic pyramid.
The extremes of laddism may well be the preserve of a minority, but unfortunately this is often the powerful and privileged: rugby players, members of elite drinking societies and debate teams.
But because in the case of Prince Phillip it's shrugged off, the message is pretty clear: if you're powerful and privileged by birth, you can say what you like.
