08-30-2020, 01:46 AM
(08-29-2020, 11:18 PM)Carbadox Wrote: I don't really see it. Chav is honestly about as classist as bogan or gopnik, in the sense that it isnt. More often than not its used to refer to the stereotype. Rarely, if never, have I ever heard it used as a slur.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav
"Chav" (/tʃæv/), also "charver" and "scally" in parts of Northern England, is a British pejorative term used to describe an anti-social lower-class youth dressed in sportswear"
its a pejorative to describe lower class youth even if you have never heard it in this context it still has the weight as an offensive word directed at the british lower class