Are you suggesting that OP is a chav?
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dgdft@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What makes this a recurring fixation for you, OP? Didn’t you post a bunch of old threads arguing that chav is a slur?
Just a weird hill, mate.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
TinyLittlePuni@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 months ago
What do sociologists say about people who repeat the same talking points over and over and over without actually engaging with anything anyone else says?
dgdft@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You’re quoting the political opinion piece of one lone sociologist, though. It’s objectively a hot take that the majority of the field would not agree with.
You can find plenty of physicists who will tell you aliens, bigfoot or alternative dimensions are real. The validity of that statement does not make aliens, bigfoot, or multiverses a physical reality.
TinyLittlePuni@lemmy.world 2 months ago
dgdft@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m totally on board with the idea that for academic anthropology, self-identity should be treated as the core determinant of cultural grouping: i.e., people are who they say they are.
But IMO, to take that academic lens outside a scholarly context and browbeat that there’s no point having a commonplace semiotic label for “common behavioral and stylistic trends of white, working-class British youth from the 90s and aughts” is a weird leap that misunderstands practical semantics.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 months ago
Them: Other scientists don’t agree with this.
You: Okay, but other scientists agree with this.