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Russell Brand Thinks It’s Wonderful The Working Class Know How To Use Adjectives

"Wow, working class people know words. Isn't life just beautiful sometimes?" – Russell Brand, probably.

by Michelle Rennex  22 September 2020
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Ever since Russell Brand made the pivot from regular, annoying male comedian to a self-righteous cultural critic, he’s become more insufferable than ever.

In case you forgot, Russell Brand was dragged to shit just last month, after trying to mansplain feminism in his horrific ‘WAP’ critique. During his painstakingly long 17-minute video, Brand sat in a crusty, old brown leather chair and questioned whether Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s #1 hit was a “feminist masterpiece” or “porn”. The now-ever wise Brand also somehow managed to relate the track back to Margaret Thatcher — a totally normal link to make.

Now Russell Brand is being destroyed again, for yet another terrible take. Turns out that Russell Brand finds it “surprising” that the working class knows how to use *checks notes* adjectives?

While tweeting about how much he loves his dog, Bear, Brand decided to express his “surprise” at “two working class men” describing the colour of his dog. Seemingly expecting the working men to be bumbling oafs, Brand was taken aback when the men used the adjectives “apricot” and “cinnamon” in place of the word brown.

“I love Bear. He brings out the beauty in people. Today two working class men independently described him in surprisingly poetic language,” Russell Brand condescendingly tweeted early this morning. “‘Apricot’ coloured said one. ‘Cinnamon’ said another.”

Now what motivated Brand to tweet out this utter garbage, nobody knows. But the point is he did. Russell Brand genuinely thought that talking about how he was amazed that the working class knew how to use words, and more specifically, adjectives, would be a good idea.

As expected, it wasn’t. In fact, it was a terrible idea and people started to clown the comedian instantly.

It’s really is hard to fathom what Russell Brand’s thought process was here — especially when the comedian grew up in Essex, a UK county that’s known for its own “working class accent“.

If someone like Brand can grow up in Essex, and continue to learn and overuse all the big words that he loves so much, then why can’t people in the working class use different terms to describe the colour brown? The implication that the working class are automatically inarticulate is pretty shitty coming from a condescending millionaire. It’s even worse when these innocent men were literally just trying to compliment Brand’s dog, and not be judged by their socioeconomic status.

Beyond this, why does Brand even think that the words “cinnamon” and “apricot” are in any way “poetic”? They are literally just colours. It would be like saying that if I choose to describe a rose as crimson in colour instead of red, I am suddenly Rupi Kaur or Maya Angelou. Spoiler alert: I am not.

As a result of the sheer ridiculousness of it all, people begun to imagine what exactly Russell Brand was expecting to hear when the working class men approached him and Bear.

Regardless, everyone could all easily agree on the same thing: Russell Brand is patronising, condescending and so painfully out of touch.