Liam Bright

I went to a fairly posh secondary school in Britain that was none the less a state school with a mixed population. A lasting effect this has had on me (apparent since I moved to America) is my vague sense of horror at the gauche people who can’t distinguish wealth from class.

I with 100% reliability misread every working-class-born leftist intellectual I meet as progeny of landed aristocracy until corrected

I ain’t an aristocrat! I think family class status hard to define, obvs working class parents but our Standing improved during my early life so by time I’m ~12ish things are pretty good for us, solidly lower middle class. So I just say I’m now middle class. I’m a fancy professor!

i think in your case class background came up in one of the first posts i read so haven't had the chance to mistake you for rebellious aristocrat