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The onus should not be on a person changing an important part of themselves because of some classist people.

To many people their accent is an important part of who they are, part of their identity and one that can't simply be switched out for 8 hours a day.

I agree. RP is part of an identity. One which can be adopted.

In fact, I'd probably go as far as to say that one of the reasons it has the cachet it does is precisely because of that, because of what it's not.

I don’t know why the onus should be on classist people stopping being classist. One may as well say that it is part of their character.