Sure, but that’s what “liberal arts” would have meant to anyone with a Victorian mindset 
What makes it especially odd is that, as noted, he also makes fun of public school students. Public schools (which, sidenote, in the UK are actually private schools - another confused joke there) were partly considered to be “inferior” because they didn’t focus on liberal arts, but more on trades.
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It’s the future being said by a pschycotic economic mastermind sniper gentleman robot, your argument is invalid
(I spelt something wrong)
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Again, I don’t think it’s supposed to be a direct analog, and Marquis is really the only one that does that. And he’s a bit crazy.
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Come again?
But you’re not explaining how the joke is supposed to work. All I’m saying is that for a Victorian gentleman to disparage “liberal arts” makes as much sense as him embracing hobos
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I like to doodle some of the battleborn in Lingerie and provocative poses. Jk, I just doodle some skin ideas for some
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The joke is that that he is so rich he sees himself above all and especially considers things such as giving to the poor and all as a waste and believes things should be only of the highest quality, basically he sees the high class and lower as people that need to be purged
That other thing was just a reference to memes
Also, as far as I understand, the Victorian aesthetic is mostly just the looks
Ok, I just went back and looked through some notes from the science history courses I took as electives.
Then I started writing up a big post, but deleted it because I really like this thread and don’t want to drive it that far into off-topic land.
But like Cade said, I think the LLC is a Victorian look with a modern superiority complex. Science majors do enjoy making fun of Arts majors.
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Maybe there is a US-specific reference to “liberal arts” I’m not getting. This is what liberal arts means from a British/Australian perspective (quoting Encylopedia Britannica):
Note that it includes science, history, and mathematics (Phoebe’s interests)
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Yeah, in the U.S. Liberal Arts means drawing naked people, i think.
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Stop insulting my work 
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In North America if you say Liberal Arts, you’re really talking more about things like social sciences, gender studies, etc. Science, Engineering, and Medicine is considered to be a totally different department.
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Okay, so to get it all straight in my head… Marquis is a German-accented Victorian-aesthetic imperialist clockwork butler who acts as a babysitter to a young woman who studies comportment, fencing, and ballroom dancing… but when he says “liberal arts,” he is making a very specific modern US college reference, and not referring to the liberal arts that would have been intimately familiar to any actual German-accented Victorian-era butler babysitting a young woman who studies comportment, fencing, and ballroom dancing.
I think I get it now, but I can have a pass for being confused, right?
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I always thought about the LLC kind of nobility as “new riches”.
So a complete other class of “nobles” or “gentleman” as the classical victorian, educated noble folk.
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I think the joke is just suppose to be him making fun of the fact that being a liberal arts major isn’t much in the way of education. I don’t think it’s suppose to tie into his design. If anything, I think it might have a slight irony to it.
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If the Hemsworths are nouveau rich, that would make sense too…
Which makes total sense, and I have been overthinking this from the beginning. 
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Okay, an attempt to un-derail my own topic, which I myself am responsible for derailing (nice work, me)
This is from my mantlepiece. I cannot explain to you what Rath is fighting off here.
Where can I read it? 
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I don’t know if they’re noveau riche, (she is Phoebe Hemsworth IV), but I do think they’re just supposed to be more general “big buisness” archetypes. I wouldn’t think too hard about it.
Obviously these are offsprings of Jigsaw and a rogue Umpa-Lumpa.
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https://m.fanfiction.net/u/5746100/Grant-Stockwell?a=s
Members of Polite Society is my most popular story, I’d suggest that one.
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All I know is that I seriously want to get them into a grinder ASAP. They are the freakiest mystery objects I own.
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