English Earnestness vs. Microaggressiveness
By Steve Sailer
10/02/2020
English culture at its best consists of an endless series of exquisitely refined microaggressions.
— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) October 2, 2020
An interesting dichotomy in English culture: earnestness vs. microaggressions:
Charles Darwin vs. Isaac Newton
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Gladstone vs. Disraeli
George Orwell vs. Evelyn Waugh
John Keats vs. Jane Austen
Charles Dickens vs. Lewis Carroll
George Harrison vs. John Lennon
More English pairs who represent English earnestness vs. English microaggressiveness:
- Queen Elizabeth II vs. Prince Philip
- Paul McCartney vs. Mick Jagger
- Eric Idle vs. John Cleese
- Cat Stevens vs. Elvis Costello
- William Wilberforce vs. Duke of Wellington
- Shelley vs. Byron
Here’s a greatest hits collection of Prince Philip’s mesoaggressions, such as:
“If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.”