There was a way to tweet this as an actually funny clapback, probably, but it needed way more workshopping in draftshttps://twitter.com/zachheltzel/status/1348081364776570881 …
It's an idiosyncratic, inverse sense of prestige, since growing up on the Gulf Coast I don't see how having a "proper British accent" wouldn't be a magnet for bullying It's of a piece with his thing with the silly hats
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Yeah, it's called covert prestige--the less you speak like a member of the prestige class, the more solidarity you're perceived to have with the non-prestige class. It's highly context- and identity-based. Picking a "proper accent" means distancing oneself from the "lower" class
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It's also a way to try to distinguish oneself from the crowd, and this guy sounds like that's a big part of it. (And I say this as a stilted twit who used way too many big words and disliked a lot of slang as a teenager, because I was a bit of a pompous snob but also legit odd)
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