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I thought it was the middle class being anti working class myself. It conjures images of Guardian readers at a dinner party saying things like "Oh, aren't we Br

I thought it was the middle class being anti working class myself. It conjures images of Guardian readers at a dinner party saying things like "Oh, aren't we British just so awful!" when someone brings up British tourists in Magaluf or something. You'd never hear that from anyone not absolutely riddled with a kind of middle classness that looks like self-loathing but is really loathing anyone who likes being British. Rinse and repeat with deriding "whiteness", or whatever else is in fashion.

TMWNN 5y ago
>You'd never hear that from anyone not absolutely riddled with a kind of middle classness that looks like self-loathing but is really loathing anyone who likes being British. Two centuries ago, British politician George Canning had a good description of such people: >A steady patriot of the world alone, >The friend of every country but his own. (<https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191843730.001.0001/q-oro-ed5-00002561 https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/978019184...>)