The other elitists

Shallow and vulgar discourse can now be found across class lines | Joel Belz

Illustration by Krieg Barrie

"Your last two columns," charged the email from someone with the unlikely name of Harmony Threesome, "were nothing if they weren't insufferably elitist. Why don't you get off your high horse? Who appointed you the judge of all the good people who shop at Walmart?"

In case you missed all that led to such a diatribe, go back and read my columns in the Dec. 17 and Dec. 31 issues of WORLD, where I described two efforts to interview shoppers at the entrance to the local Walmart. In the first case, virtually no one would talk. During my second visit, shoppers talked—but with embarrassing shallowness and vulgarity.