From a video I posted on YouTube (my painful review of the film Moon, if you can cast your minds that far back), where I might have described the place I live as being one of the “sickeningly middle-class” areas of Surrey:
What do you mean “sickeningly middle class” you arrogant twit.
Middle class people are the ones who pay the bloody taxes that keeps the layabouts in luxury while they sit on their fat arses doing nothing but being jealous and insulting of anyone with money, who actually work for a living and deserve their little luxuries, unlike the so-called “poor”.
You must a another bloody loony-left student, arrogant and ignorant, god help the UK is all I can say.
(Incidentally, I believe this to be a repeat troll: a similar comment was posted a month or so back, which I deleted because I took it to be a one-off instance of fuckwittery.)
Not only do I find this comment personally offensive, due to the fact that both my parents are in full-time employment and the only reason I’m not is thanks to education and a general job shortage getting in the way; it also demonstrates precisely the hidden subtext of that brief throwaway remark.
Middle-class people—not all middle-class people, mark you, but a large proportion of them—have a tendency to be incredibly smug and arrogant. This might be because this particular subset believes everything the Daily Mail says, and considers all us common people to be benefit-riding dossers. (I’m not denying that such people exist—in fact, I wish death upon them—but the Mail vastly overinflates/conveniently omits figures to sell more papers.)
Perhaps it was a nasty remark to make: of course it was made in jest. Of course, if you were offended, please take this to be my reserved apology – and grow a thicker skin, for Christ’s sake.
