I keep wondering why class prejudice is treated as so normal in the UK, especially when most people are working class themselves. The slur “chav” shows this clearly. It gets used so casually, almost like it’s harmless, even though it’s aimed at an entire social group. What I can’t figure out is why so few people call it out for the classism it is. Media and politics seem to reinforce the idea that mocking the working class is acceptable, but it still feels strange that so many people go along with it without questioning it. It makes me wonder how something so openly dismissive became such an ordinary part of everyday language.
A few poignant examples I’ve read are things such as “anyone else cross the street when they see chavs (working class people)”? Or “I hate chavs (working class people) I wish they were all gassed”. Often, such phrasings will earn a lot of upvotes or likes, as well. It’s 42 million people, that is a lot of people some people want to be “gassed”, that other people are upvoting/liking.
Not a Brit but I’m pretty confident “Chav” is not a synonym for “working class”.
They keep posting this idea that “chav = working class”.
They either have an agenda or a mental problem.
Also American, and know damn well that chav /= working class.
Not a brit
Also American
You arent implying everyone is from the Freedomland, are you?
It’s not. It’s a way to denigrate those in low income areas.
You’re right that Britain has a big issue with classism and there’s lots negative stereotypes about working class people. But ‘chav’ is a term for a specific subculture within working class British culture. Most people I know who hate ‘chavs’ are working class people who have to interact with them regularly. It’s like if you were claiming that anyone talking about ‘thugs’ and ‘gangstas’ were hating on working class black Americans.
Unfortunately there are a lot of people who use “thugs and gangsters” as a euphemism for “black people”
I’d bet money the average working class black American hates actual thugs and gangsters more than most though.
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Chav does not mean “working class people” and is not a “slur”.
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You’ve got to be the same person with the chav fetish looking for a “polite” chav synonym for your romantic interests and then attacking people.
If you don’t like that word, don’t use it so much.
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Quit posting this nonsense under different accounts.
Chav is NOT a derogatory term for working class folks.
This is what I’m going to reply every time you post this garbage.
The Cambridge English Dictionary defines chav as “an insulting word for someone, usually a young person, whose way of dressing, speaking, and behaving is thought to show their lack of education and low social class.”
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/chav
It’s based on behaviour.
Did you create a new account to ask this again?
Manipulation for politics. You will become like the USA whether you like it or not. This is how it starts.
A super all-star politician will start saying how they are “for the people” as they consume your humanity and turn out shit-life that is never and will never actually be for the people.
Just a heads up, OP is a troll. They pop up every so often, sometimes with different accounts, claiming this nonsense. Chav is not, and never has been, a slur, towards working class people or otherwise.
Source required.
