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(ok lets get provocative)
heres a very funny site i found *point made, link removed* :rolleyes:
for all those who think sight-based prejudice is so very funny, you are sure to think this is hilarious and extremely astute :rolleyes:
heres a very funny site i found *point made, link removed* :rolleyes:
for all those who think sight-based prejudice is so very funny, you are sure to think this is hilarious and extremely astute :rolleyes:
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dont worry im doing this to prove a point; the link i have posted is to a ridiculously racist and ill informed site which masquerades as a 'joke' or 'humourous' site.
When that link gets removed for being racist and wrong, i'll want to know why a simlilarly prejudicial site isnt being taken down; ChavScum.com
The reason im doing this is because racism is often based upon ill informed opinions which have their roots in labelling a certain group which is then stratified upon the basis of physical appearance.
Same with ChavScum.
Why tolerate one prejudice but not another :mad:
because one is a choice.
i'm not condoning either, but i reckon many people would argue that you can't change your skin colour, but you can choose to dress like a chav.
and before anyone pulls the money card, you can buy really nice clothes in asda for a fraction of the price of adidas and even fake market burberry.
I'm not sure I can see your point here. I also see the problem with prejudice against so-called "chavs". But chavs choose their appearance whereas black people do not. I guess that's the difference. And I'd argue racism was a more serious prejudice than mockery of chavs.
Black people dont choose their skin tone, but they also dont choose to have lots of stereotypes thrown at them, and be called 'Ja Rules' and so forth because of the way some of them dress, which has been pushed as the black 'urban' stereotype.
How far can you choose the community you are born into?
So the only think that makes you a chav is the way you dress?
do you buy your asbo with your burberry cap?
your drink-driving charge with your low range BMW?
how is it not a choice for young black males to adopt 'Black street' culture, why not Carlton from The Fresh Prince-type intergration?
How much of culture is applied and how much chosen?
depends on the individual and their thoughts.
to me it is, yeah. i don't know anything else about them other than how they dress.
then again, i don't really care how people dress so maybe i'm not the person to be grilling. i was just pointing out why there was a difference.
However, I do think prejudice against chavs is unhelpful and divisive. Whether chavness is a class issue is another matter.
All stereotypes are loosely based on truth otherwise their subject wouldn't be recognisable. It doesn't make it right but we instinctively form prejudices all the time - like walking down the street at night you choose whether to cross the road when you see a rowdy group of men, or you may choose to help an old lady who has fallen over...all because of instinctive assumptions about people.
no not really; theres a question mark by that sentence which indicates that i do not know to what extent this occurs and that i aknowledge a complex interplay which i cannot fully quantify.
All stereotypes are based upon observational consquence and have degrees of vailidity relating to this, however the scale and accuracy with which this can be applied is in question. Is it helpful to consider groups at the expense of the individual meanings.
What my pet peave in this thread is, is that we allow the wild application of the 'chav' stereotype, yet other such prejudices that are applied on a scale outside reasonable evidential and logical boundaries (for comedic purposes or otherwise) are not tolerated.
It is a choice based on lifestyle and other factors. No different than any other race. Can application and choice of culture be measured accurately?
Edited to add: culture, imo, is not exactly tangible as you can have more than one that you live by. It is possible for an individual to be both Carlton and The Fresh Prince.
well the concept of the Double hermenutic woudl suggest not.
Then if thats true how can you be sure it is a choice? What constitutes the idea of choice?
For example; in an election in which intimidation is being practiced; the choice to vote against the agressor still exists, however if there is a likely hood of social exclusion or persecution, which one would many choose?
Same with culture, if you are growning up in an area in which the dominant culture has certain traits and behaviour associated with it, and that rejection or non adoption of these factors is hazardous, how far is that reasonable choice (could even be termed rational choice in some situations
Then of course there is the question of personal feeling, and how deep conviction can juxtapose itself with accepted popular culture.
Kiezo claiming in this thread that dizzie rascal was a twat because of the clothes he wore. This was a stupid arguement based upon an application of a scottish social phenominon to a london group who looked the same. Lets call it the 'Black Neds' incident.
Hellfire; here based upon one unfortunate incident, suddenly he has not a few, but hundreds to blame for this!
Is this any different from me being cut up on the road by asian man and then suddenly 'Bloody pakis think they own the road?'.
This is what im getting at; people are applying their experience and prejudices on a frightening scale and not being picked up on it.
If people did say that about drivers of Asian descent then they would be condemned because it is racist. One could argue that "chavs" choose to dress and act in a certain way so prejudice against them isn't the same as racism. It's still not nice though, I accept.
Natfront website is my home page.
Oh come on FFS, liven up :rolleyes: .
You make me genuinely worried.
no im afraid not on this one. When its acceptable to do the same to any other social group then fine, not til then
Thats the point mate, there arent too many so why tolerate this one?
racism is simply a model of sight based prejudice that has been laced with all kinds of eroneous biological and other connotations to create a racially prejudiced paradigm.
Its just that it has been applied in different ways and on a differing scale that is the practical difference.
And alot of racism is what then?
Chavicity (new word
Cultural bias IS a part of alot of racist thinking, and alot of cultures and subcultures are constructed in the same way.
My comparison is the way in which racist meanings are constructed by the observer, with those of the 'chav'.
There’s nothing wrong with taking the piss out of chavs.
I would find it pretty sick if somebody tried to suggest that being a bit ‘anti-chav’ is as bad as racism or homophobia.
Chavscum makes massive generalisations but it’s generally humorous and anybody that lives in the real world would realise how true a lot of it is.
There’s plenty of chavs at my school, funnily most of them are spoilt middle class kids and they happily all happily embrace many aspects of black culture yet then come out with some of the most racist things...
I wonder what percentage of BNP votes comes from ‘chav’ minded people?
Regardless, chavscum is simply someone making use of their right to freedom of speech. They’re not inciting hatred against any particular ethnic group, they’re breaking no laws.
How the PC brigade never fail to amaze.
oh im not saying that it isnt funny, astute or humourous and that we cant look at it in isolation as humor and then try to discard our prejudices in the real world.
What im saying is that this particular prejudice is accepted into the realm of humour whereas others arent and i dont see the cognitive or ideational difference
Hmm it depends.
There’s plenty of comedy that is not racist yet makes humour of certain groups, stereotypes and situations.
Ali G? Goodness Gracious Me?
I agree there.
If you look at the rhetoric used, its not humorous. There's an underlying viciousness there. Phrases like "sub-human scum" etc.
So?
I dunno. You tell me.
True.
Who are "the PC brigade"? Are they like the Angry Brigade?