chattering classes
Media commentator set
The chattering classes are educated, articulate people—journalists, academics, commentators—who discuss politics and culture, often dismissively implying they talk without acting or are out of touch with ordinary concerns.
The term is mildly derogatory, usually deployed by those who consider themselves more practical or closer to real life: The chattering classes obsess over issues most people don't care about.
- literatiEducated, cultured class
- clerisyEducated people collectively
- liberal eliteAffluent, educated leftist influencers
- highbrowIntellectually or artistically sophisticated
- ivory towerSheltered intellectual enclave
opinionated · intellectuals · pundits · podcasts · blogs · performative · verbose · op-eds · think pieces · hot takes · detachment · echo chambers · media personalities · newspapers · journalists · commentators · political ideologies · academics
chattering classessilent majority
Presumed moderate, publicly mute multitude
chattering classesworking class
Manual laborers collectively
ordinary people · common people · blue-collar workers · the masses · Main Street
chattering classesdoers
People who act
men of action · practitioners · boots on the ground · decision-makers · workers
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