TinyLittlePuni

I keep wondering why class prejudice is treated as so normal in the UK, especially when most people are working class themselves. The slur "chav" shows this clearly. It gets used so casually, almost like it's harmless, even though it's aimed at an entire social group. What I can't figure out is why so few people call it out for the classism it is. Media and politics seem to reinforce the idea that mocking the working class is acceptable, but it still feels strange that so many people go along with it without questioning it. It makes me wonder how something so openly dismissive became such an ordinary part of everyday language.

A few poignant examples I've read are things such as "anyone else cross the street when they see chavs (working class people)"? Or "I hate chavs (working class people) I wish they were all gassed". Often, such phrasings will earn a lot of upvotes or likes, as well. It's 42 million people, that is a lot of people some people want to be "gassed", that other people are upvoting/liking.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38193993

I learned a new word, and it turns out the word is a slur for a person who is working class. That seems very nasty, considering that statistically speaking, working class people are the majority of Britain. Most British people I know online are against racial slurs yet throw around the slur "chav" like it's nothing. Why?

I learned a new word, and it turns out the word is a slur for a person who is working class. That seems very nasty, considering that statistically speaking, working class people are the majority of Britain. Most British people I know online are against racial slurs yet throw around the slur "chav" like it's nothing. Why?

I'm Greek + English, used to live in the UK years ago, and I visited again see a friend in a new city. What surprised me was how everyone (not literally, but a very large portion) seemed to have their own distinct look.

We went into a busy McDonald's and about a quarter of the people there were dressed head to toe in Nike or Adidas tracksuits, baseball caps, trainers with the bubble soles, and loads of gold jewellery, such as bracelets, rings on multiple fingers, the works. It was always in combination. They looked a bit like white gangstas, or early Eminem cosplayers. One of them was playing this kind of funky house music that had pitched-up vocals on their phone. All of these people were young, middle aged and old.

I mentioned it to my friend and she just laughed and said, "Yeah, that's just the style here." Wherever we went, up town, in a bus, in a chip shop, there were people dressed like that everywhere.

Is that actually a thing? Do different UK cities have their own fashion vibe and I just never noticed?

She called him out for making inappropriate sexual comments online to someone she knew, who was 15 at the time. He ended up getting banned. This caused this man to develop a spiteful obsession with her because according to him, she is slandering him as a pedo.

A few months ago he found her social media and his obsession is now in full force. He's boasted about mass reporting her, making false accusations against her, and replying to irrelevant Tweets with accusations in an attempt to stir up drama. She didn't even mention him or talk about him, he just replied to random Tweets with confrontations and when she refused to engage, he replied again using his sockpuppet accounts agreeing with his own reply. He's also said that he's downloaded her photos to his computer (including ones that are a year or two old) and uploaded them to a porn site. She doesn't wear makeup so it's immediately obvious just by looking at her photos she's under 18. When people confront him he uses DARVO tactics. On some sites he's on he pretends to be civil but on his own site his motivations are much more clear. Several individuals in his friends group have allegedly either owned or defended CP.

The lengths he'll go to in order to find every social media she has is insane and based on his post timings he's often staying awake all night to do this.

And yes, she has reported him, but sometimes the moderation is useless and he's very good at using DARVO to try and make it seem she's the one harassing him. He's also using sockpuppet accounts to make it seem like multiple people are making the same accusations when really it's all just him.

My brother's a few years younger than me and I'm his older sister. It was pretty recently I got better from a decade long illness that put me into a semi conscious and half bedbound state. I have almost no memory of that decade and now I'm adjusting. I had spent a whole year getting used to being able to eat properly again. When I was ill my classmates who I was friends with moved cities and kinda moved on so I'm back to square one and feel a bit lost. My brother and his friends are members of the same subculture I'm in.

I have 2 close friends but they're American and it's online, nothing in person. So I'm single and only have 2 friends who are American and who I speak to over Discord. Recently I finished therapy and the therapist told me that friendships are important. Sometimes my brother goes out with his friends (don't know how many of them are girls but I don't mind either way, I'm a tomboy and get along slightly better with guys) and I was wondering if it'd be weird to want to want to tag along sometimes as a start?

I have UBlock installed on Firefox and what is pictured here is what has been happening for every video that I'm clicking on. Panning doesn't make the video play either. I tried that. It's not my internet connection since the videos and ads that you can't even skip and pause when you tab out play just fine on Chrome. In the days before this happened I got several popups from YouTube saying that adblockers aren't allowed after months of browsing YouTube ad-free without issue