Comments | mr_h_r_hughes: Class

mr_h_r_hughes

Class

Jan 29, 2007 12:48

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renniek January 29 2007, 13:03:06 UTC

It annoys me from both sides. Snobby Daily Mail type comments about yob culture and benefit fraud, but also snide remarks about the middle class, which also seem all too common.

ed_fortune January 29 2007, 13:38:59 UTC

This is why the word 'Chav' irritates me so. Prejudice, wrapped up in fear and pathetic excuses.

mr_h_r_hughes January 29 2007, 14:51:30 UTC

Hallelujah brother! Today it's seemingly used a lot of the time by people wishing to deride anyone poorer or lower class than they are.

anatosuchus January 29 2007, 14:06:45 UTC

This is why I am an equal opportunity hater. If you hate everybody, you don't have to waste time trying to distinguish between them.

mr_h_r_hughes January 29 2007, 14:52:22 UTC

This is a sensible policy. : )

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mr_h_r_hughes January 29 2007, 14:54:35 UTC

Some good points. You've got me thinking.

lucyas January 29 2007, 14:44:51 UTC

I got very wound up by the use of the word chav at gencon in 2005 because people were using it as a general term for the people who went to Butlins, who were mostly just normal working class families. I dislike the implication that all working class people are chavs. However, I don't necessarily dislike the term chav when used in the way the words mod, rocker, hippy, teenybopper etc might be used - as a term for a fashion trend ( ... )

mr_h_r_hughes January 29 2007, 15:04:43 UTC

I know the kind of thing. Living on the only council estate in an otherwise quite well-off area wasn't fun. Going to school with people who when they said their mum and dad were short of money actually meant 'we're going to the Canary Islands this year instead of Florida' wasn't fun either. I've heard people using the term chav as interchangable with 'this person's family is on benefits and lives in a council house/flat' at which point I feel like saing "well in that case I'm a bloody chav". Actually of late certian quaters have taken to writing off whole towns or estates as 'chav areas'.
I don't mean to sound like I have a chip on my shoulder but the casuualness with which these generalisations fall from people's mouths winds me up somethimes.

lucyas January 29 2007, 15:24:06 UTC

Yes, that is exactly the useage that pisses me off too

november_girl January 29 2007, 18:54:58 UTC

The legal profession is quite interesting in that regard ( ... )