>>524153tbh I get it. I'm too lazy to hate anyone over it, but it basically amounts to: The inferior product is what I'm used to, it's
fine. Then someone comes along and goes "no, it's not fine, it's shit" which is socially insulting (on two levels - you're insulting my stuff and you're insulting my taste) even if what they enjoy is objectively a higher quality commodity. It's hard for it not to carry connotations of: "i'm too good for the things you enjoy"
it's not really about self flagellation: it's not something that's felt as a loss to begin with. the inferior product is the
default and deviation from that default without a normal excuse is easy to read as pretentious social posturing.
which it often has elements of. people who like their good coffee, their fancy beer, their fancy and-or foreign food, can rarely resist contrasting it with the mud, the crap, the slop… it's not too hard to then connect this instinctive feeling to a fairly basic conservative outlook in life, explaining why it dominates there: "why do you have to be different? why can't you just be normal?"