I don't think the people B. dislikes so much are "chavs", exactly. But
it's difficult to know exactly what a "chav" is - it's somewhat of a
contested signifier.
The meaning of "chav" seems to depend on the distinction between the
"deserving" and the "undeserving" poor, and to name a condition of
"undeserving" poverty ameliorated by "undeserved" benefits and
variously ill-gotten gains. The most virulent stereotype is then of
the "chav" who isn't poor *at all*, thanks to a combination of
relentless criminality and the unwilling munificence of the taxpayer:
it is implied that the "just deserts" of such a person would be
destitution and imprisonment.
But what makes a person "deserving" or "undeserving" is really at the
whim of the entity holding the purse-strings: "chavs" are selfish,
ignorant exhibitionists precisely because the virtues being urged on
the poor are mutual support (rather than "dependency" on the state),
moral discipline through what passes for "education", and social
invisibility (access to the public sphere being reserved for VIPs such
as Chantelle whatsername). They are everything that New Labour
moralism casts as abject, in other words.
Dominic
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