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> I’m a smug, bourgeois liberal who lives in North London – so the result felt like a powerful rejection of my entire worldview. This sentence said just about
by lujim 10y ago
> I’m a smug, bourgeois liberal who lives in North London – so the result felt like a powerful rejection of my entire worldview.
This sentence said just about everything I needed to know about the author. Being smug isn't a badge of honor, and describing oneself as 'smug' is as much of a red flag as a date that shows up late and describes themselves as 'A jealous person' or 'high maintenance'. They believe that they are so special and unique that annoying behavior is actually endearing. Heaven forbid something happens that shakes his worldview.
Edit: Apparently it's ironic humor. This isn't the first or last time I've underestimated just how subtle British humor can be.
- infinity0 10y agoYou're missing some context. Much of the Leave campaign has been appealing to workers by labelling more wealthy socialists as "smug superior intellectual upper-middle class Guardian readers" etc [1]. The author is just parodying that, he's not actually proud of being smug. [1] http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44970.htm http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44970.htm
- andrewingram 10y agoI think you may be missing an important part of how this guy communicates. Like many Brits, he's using someone else's label of himself in a semi-ironic way. He almost certainly acknowledges there's some truth to it, but doesn't wholly agree with it.
- igravious 10y agoIf you read the piece with John Oliver's voice in your head you'll get the true intent behind the words. Tongue-in-cheek I think is the term that used to be used though it has fallen on hard times of late (possibly due to Globalist Elite agenda, hear hear!)