Rocsteady wrote:Knoyleo wrote:Lagamorph wrote:"Gammon" is about as racist as "chav"
Chav isn't racist, but it is classist.
Is it? I've known a fair few right middle class chavs.
What made them chavs, though? While it became an trendy lifestyle choice in some circles, all the trappings of the chav stereotype are rooted in pictures of a certain working class/poor lifestyle that's generally intended to demean people from those backgrounds. Also, chav's an easy way to do down anyone from a working class background, that presumably your middle class chav mates could avoid, having a chavvy accent, coming from a chavvy area, etc.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.vice ... ont-let-goChav is, of course, along with "hoodie", "scally" or "ned", reductive shorthand for an oft-imagined adolescent, usually from an estate, who, in addition to sportswear, likes weed, benefit fraud, FIFA and intimidation. It's a word that does nothing to help the problems that the myth might have grown out of – problems of underemployment and antisocial behaviour.
Owen Jones's publishing sensation Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class popularised the view that the word was no longer viable for usage, describing the phenomenon as a "flagrant triumphalism of the rich who, no longer challenged by those below them, instead point and laugh at them".
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Back on topic, get a load of this gammon.