by Tumama004 October 30, 2020
Get the Pull a Ellen mug.A social phenomenon in which individuals or groups who have successfully advanced in status, wealth, or opportunity then act to block others from accessing the same path upward.
Key Features:
Motivated by fear of competition, scarcity mindset, or desire to protect hard-won status.
Can manifest in politics (e.g., immigrants opposing immigration), economics (e.g., professionals gatekeeping their fields), or class mobility (e.g., elites dismantling welfare or education programs they once benefited from).
Example (fictional): Raymond Leon in the movie "In Time" rises out of poverty to become a Timekeeper but enforces the very system that traps others where he once was.
Example (real): An immigrant who gained citizenship but campaigns to restrict immigration for others.
Key Features:
Motivated by fear of competition, scarcity mindset, or desire to protect hard-won status.
Can manifest in politics (e.g., immigrants opposing immigration), economics (e.g., professionals gatekeeping their fields), or class mobility (e.g., elites dismantling welfare or education programs they once benefited from).
Example (fictional): Raymond Leon in the movie "In Time" rises out of poverty to become a Timekeeper but enforces the very system that traps others where he once was.
Example (real): An immigrant who gained citizenship but campaigns to restrict immigration for others.
1. After becoming wealthy through public education, the politician now opposes funding for schools, effectively pulling up the ladder behind him.
2. Some immigrants, once they gain citizenship, support restrictive immigration policies — a classic case of pulling up the ladder.
2. Some immigrants, once they gain citizenship, support restrictive immigration policies — a classic case of pulling up the ladder.
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Get the pulled a "verba" mug.A Hawkins is a type of player who has a really long game. Pulling a Hawkins is when a friend leaves your life to do something important and then reappears via social media many years later when he is getting divorced. Then he talks to you until he gets married again, then he ignores you and then shows up again when he is getting divorced again. Someone who does this is pulling a Hawkins.
For example, I can't believe that he is pulling a Hawkins on me again. He went to Iraq after 911 and didn't talk to me for 12 years and then one day he just showed up on my Facebook. Then that time he just talked to me until he met another wife. Now he invites me to his wedding. That player has a really long game.
by HqKoid7035 June 22, 2020
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Taking somthing small and insignificant and exaggerating it beyond belief. In other words getting very angry over small things.
Taking somthing small and insignificant and exaggerating it beyond belief. In other words getting very angry over small things.
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