Owen Jones’ book “Chavs: The demonization of the working class” highlights many of these views on chavs. Jones notices how it has become completely acceptable to take the piss out of the working class – “It’s sad that Woolworths is closing. Where will all the chavs buy their Christmas presents?”. Some even call the lower working class as “Sub-class”. If the same remarks were made of a minority group or a sex it would be racism or sexism, so why is it okay to be so derogative of a huge portion of the population of the country??
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