(1) Starkey was in a heated discussion with Owen Jones, author of Chavs: the Demonisation of the Working Class, when he made his remarks during a discussion hosted by Emily Maitlis that also included the writer Dreda Say Mitchell.
(2) "What has happened is that the substantial section of the chavs that you wrote about have become black.
(3) A classic example, she believes, is Little Britain, in which David Walliams blacked up to play the character of Desiree, an obese black woman, and in which so-called "chavs" are ridiculed.
(4) But the one that really jumped out was of a chav-themed school disco: all these rosy-cheeked, foppish-looking public schoolkids dressed in baseball caps and Adidas tracksuits.
(5) Johnson tells the Radio Times that she didn't know that fat people ("classic chavs") could be hungry, until she saw their empty cupboards and their food budget (£3 a day for three people), and what it could and could not buy.
(6) I love her twice as hard for depriving a certain type of viewer of the chaotic chavs-on-tour spectacle they might have been expecting by taking entirely normal holidays and considering sound financial options.
(7) Discussion of the moral deficiency of benefit claimants has long been a substitute for political and economic debate, asylum-seeker is a dirty word, and "chav" is a word that no one wants applied to them.
(8) Jones's Chavs, Andy Merrifield's Magical Marxism, Laurie Penny's collection of her writing Penny Red and Nicholas Shaxson's exposé of tax havens Treasure Islands complete the lineup.
(9) Unusually for the comedy chav character – sadly every soap has one – Beth has been furnished with the requisite parenting skills to clock when something's up with her Craigy.
(10) The headline inside was "Future Bling of England"; the strapline screamed, "Wills wears Chav Gear in Army Snap."
(11) The shortlist Counterpower: Making Change Happen by Tim Gee Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber Tweets from Tahrir: Egypt's Revolution as it Unfolded, in the Words of the People Who Made It edited by Nadia Idle and Alex Nunns Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones Magical Marxism: Subversive Politics and the Imagination by Andy Merrifield Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent by Laurie Penny Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World by Nicholas Shaxson
(12) Class hatred has been siphoned off on to chavs, scroungers, benefit fraudsters, single mothers, all the new untouchables, so that the architects of austerity can justify their cruelty.
(13) It hardly ever has a scandal – the biggest was when a group of 12-year-olds got drunk on vodka – and it is reputed, probably wrongly, to have originated "chav" as a snooty term for the less eligible young men of the town ("Cheltenham average").
(14) And in popular culture, stereotypes that had been given new life in the 1980s eventually went nuclear: the mid-to-late New Labour period, let us not forget, was the era of Little Britain’s council-estate grotesque Vicky Pollard , the hairstyle maligned as the council-house facelift, and the bundling-up of council housing in the same dread category as “chavs” and welfare scroungers.
(15) Over two pages built around a snap of 30 trainee officers at Sandhurst, yesterday's Sun gleefully recounted how the heir to the throne "joined in the fun as his platoon donned chav-themed fancy dress to mark the completion of their first term".
(16) The “mix”, even when it happened, was a mix of the mutually hostile – search for the Greenwich Millennium Village online, to find a host of complaints by rich residents at the fact that sundry “chavs” and “scum” have ended up residing in their stunning luxury living solution.
(17) Now the people that bug me every day are cab drivers and chavs.
(18) His perusal of the entertainment currently offered to undergraduates has only confirmed that the so-called "chav bop" - a disco where you dress up as a working-class person - is an immovable fixture not only at public schools, but also throughout Oxford's colleges.
(19) They want us looking suspiciously and disdainfully in the direction of marginalised individuals; "chavs", "immigrants" and "gays," not in the direction of the institutions who actually damage our society – banks, corporations and the media.
(20) They want to see the back of these TV chavs so they can be left with their Poliakoff and their Potter (as well as their Big Brothers and Embarrassing Illnesses and all their "TV heaven", slumming it choices, obviously) and be served a TV which is essentially much more ... them.
Redneck
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Example Sentences:
(1) On 5th Gear, from 2007, he talked about internet nerds reinventing themselves through social media, and offered an intentionally redneck perspective on the battle of the sexes in the deliberately gauche I'm Still a Guy.
(2) The Trump vote contained rednecks and inhabitants of the rust belt, just as south Wales and Sunderland turned out for Brexit – but in neither case was that the whole story.
(3) The view was that homophobic rednecks walked into a bar and saw an obviously gay man with money and targeted him and beat him to death for that reason,” says Jimenez.
(4) Old ham boxing writers were happy to believe him, and so were America’s rightwing rednecks.
(5) In the pantheon of American poets, Woody belongs midway between Walt Whitman and Bob Dylan , but it is his roots in Oklahoma that give his work an authentic voice, ringing out from the dusty midwestern plains: a welcome antidote to the easy jibe that, if you're poor and white in this part of the world, you're bound to be a redneck.
(6) To which I reply: "You're absolutely right, sit down and shut up, Tagg, you embarrassingly privileged, emotionally incontinent redneck."
(7) There seemed to be a new generation of new organisers within the community who were very opposed to the old, middle-aged, white, slightly redneck unions that one associated with the States and there seemed to be a genuinely radical place for organised labour which was community-based.'
(8) We do not have that "redneck left", of blue-collar scaffolders who smoke weed and listen to Springsteen and even the Grateful Dead.
(9) Duke’s significance wasn’t even lost on the basketball courts at my southern high school – hardly the most political of places – where a redneck spotted out of his usual camouflage pants and in khakis on class picture day might get called “David Duke”.
(10) Rural culture is as important as any other culture and is often thought of as backwards, dumb and redneck.
(11) Three times more viewers watch the cable reality show Duck Dynasty about camouflage-wearing, duck-hunting rednecks, than NBC's current evening comedy, Parks & Recreation .
(12) The first half is an intriguing story of revenge that plays out in the terrifyingly remote Appalachian kingdom of a redneck monster portrayed by Woody Harrelson.
(13) It's the star attraction of Georgia's beloved Redneck Games , alongside events such as the Armpit Serenade and Bobbin' For Pigs' Feet.
(14) And while metropolitan hipsters sneer at dweebs, rednecks and "bros" donning UV facepaint and throwing shapes at commercial festivals, Moore is overjoyed to witness their thrill of discovery.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gun owners on why they oppose background checks I heard a lot of suggestions: don’t treat us like rednecks.
(16) It was as if a nationwide drug legalisation policy had been written by a teenager, a gangster, a redneck trucker and a Chinese chemist.
(17) Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are rednecks, and Twain's language depends on verisimilitude for its comedy.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The 70s were bracketed by well-deserved Oscars in 71 and 78 (for Klute and Coming Home); by long-term alienation from her father over her political activities (and he was the consummate liberal, so she must have really bugged him) and their reconciliation on the set of On Golden Pond; by the distance between Tout Va Bien, for Godard in 1972, and The Jane Fonda Workout, which drove the VCR revolution; and between husband No 2, Chicago Seven member Tom Hayden, and his hi-tech redneck successor Turner.
(19) Bush, on the other hand, wants that kind of winking recognition from rednecks –Civil War name affinity always plays well with the “states’ rights!” crowd.
(20) Out of the Furnace Redneck kingdom … Out of the Furnace.