For people who aren’t in the know, “chav” is this mythical, evil subculture the upper class journalists made up specifically to demonize and mock the poor. It’s a gross caricature of working class people. It never was a subculture. These people are terrified of seeing men in tracksuits because the chav is depicted as dressing in one. I’ve seen Reddit posts where people will claim they crossed the street after seeing men in tracksuits because they “don’t want to be beat to death by chavs”.
Basically, these people are seeing normal working class fashion trends and thinking it’s what amounts to a drop bear.
Not saying that there aren’t bad people who dress in that extremely popular/default fashion style (streetwear), there are, just like how you get bad people in any other clothes style, but the subculture they’re so scared of doesn’t even exist. I find it kind of hilarious, like a grown adult being scared of a boogeyman hiding in their closet.
Aren’t you the person who posted half a dozen pictures of guys in the UK equivalent of ‘thug life’ gear, asked Lemmy what they would call them, and then responded to dozens of comments of ‘chav’ with near identical complaints about how chav is a classist slur, revealing the entire post to be mostly just a way to pull people in so you could spam your objectively false opinion?
In what way is what I’m saying objectively false?
Truly the Mike Tyson of online debate
I explained it pretty clearly in that previous post, as did several others. You don’t seem ready or able to listen so I don’t see much value in repeating myself. Maybe you should find a hobby that isn’t arguing online.