Tram Town
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
| Category: Bogans This magnificent article about chavs by Julie Burchill makes an observation: ...the white indigenous English working-class is now the one group you can insult without feeling the breath of the Commission for Racial Equality on your neck, which makes it pretty damn cowardly apart from being what I call “social racism”...In Australia we call chavs bogans and the social racism observation counts just as much. The Bolta pointed at an article by Kim Huynh (who teaches politics and international relations in the School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University) entitled "Will bogans decide election?". If it weren't August I would assume that it was some kind of sick April Fools' Day gag. Maybe it is a satirical piece but it's very well disguised if it is. As one of the Bolta's commenters said: If the Left could rid themselves of this snobbish elitist attitude, they might actually have a chance of understanding the people they look down upon.I would add that these are also the people that they expect to vote for them. |
