I learned a new word, and it turns out the word is a slur for a person who is working class. That seems very nasty, considering that statistically speaking, working class people are the majority of Britain. Most British people I know online are against racial slurs yet throw around the slur “chav” like it’s nothing. Why?
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One journalist writing a book doesn’t make something true. Chav is not a slur for the working class.
I’m a working class man from a working class area in the UK, and the vast majority of people here have never been described as chavs and never would.
Hmmn, a “journalist” . . . that’s a much worse slur, the way I use English.
I’d far rather have a pint with a chav than any fucking journo.
I agree with previous comment. Chav is a subculture that partially intersects with most other classes, except probably no overlap with fully inbred level pure-toffs. I’d say well over half of working class would not be classed as chav.
I’m not a Brit, but when I hear chav it’s not working class I think of. It’s someone young, skipping school and some unholy mix of gopnik and mumble rapper.
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