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Chavs are the British version of the Australian Drop Bear (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44683036

Explanation:

spoilerBoth twist something (staples of young white working class fashion, tracksuits, gold, caps, and trainers, a cute Australian animal) into something dangerous (chav/drop bear) and that caricature is wrongfully said to be it's own thing (a subculture/a carnivorous marsupial species - in reality, sociologists have confirmed there was no "chav" subculture, nobody or almost nobody identified as one, it was something made up by upper class tabloids to demonise the white British working class, like how zoologists have said there's no "drop bear" species, it was something to make people fearful of Koalas) in order to make people fearful (chav especially is riddled with classism, though.)

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[–] 11 points 7 months ago

You're a stuck record aren't ya?

Have you ever heard of the phrase:

"The lady doth protest too much, me thinks?"

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    [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    But they all have Chlamydia

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    [–] 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    What makes this a recurring fixation for you, OP? Didn’t you post a bunch of old threads arguing that chav is a slur?

    Just a weird hill, mate.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    You’re quoting the political opinion piece of one lone sociologist, though. It’s objectively a hot take that the majority of the field would not agree with.

    You can find plenty of physicists who will tell you aliens, bigfoot or alternative dimensions are real. The validity of that statement does not make aliens, bigfoot, or multiverses a physical reality.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    I’m totally on board with the idea that for academic anthropology, self-identity should be treated as the core determinant of cultural grouping: i.e., people are who they say they are.

    But IMO, to take that academic lens outside a scholarly context and browbeat that there’s no utility in having a commonplace semiotic label for “common behavioral and stylistic trends of white, working-class British youth from the 90s and aughts” is a weird leap that misunderstands practical semantics.

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    [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    More scared of pete and bas

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