Chav-tastic

[dreamer_easy]

Oh, now I get what the hell a "chav" is. They're the young people in Britain you're supposed to be afraid of and allowed to sneer at. It was a reference to "the national sport of chav-baiting" in a news item that tipped me off. The Australian equivalent at the mo would be young Lebanese-Australian men.

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[jblum.livejournal.com]

Have there been moral panics in the US about poor Whites? I'll bet there have.

Not moral indignation so much as moral contempt, a portrayal of them as degenerates. A la Deliverance.