Careerist rhetoric and real policy violence operate within the same elite scene

Evidence

Flanagan’s bleak irony is fully employed here: even Cody shocks himself with his tirade, realizing that he doesn’t really believe what he has just said but simply wishes to employ “grand” words to impress the assembled power brokers at Katie Moretti’s party. Nevertheless, the forces working behind the scenes in this novel are deadly serious about such things. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 372

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Elite public discourse is central to reproducing racism across society — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 647; Elites frame working-class political demands as usurpations of rational debate — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2370; Frame cultural-policy choices as technical rather than political serves dominant elites (+6 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Elite public discourse is central to reproducing racism across society — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 647; Elites frame working-class political demands as usurpations of rational debate — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2370; Frame cultural-policy choices as technical rather than political serves dominant elites (+6 more)