Chavs were made up by a middle/upperclass newspaper in 2004 to paint the working class as all animalistic thugs. They never actually existed, and like with The Loch Ness Monster, the stories of run-ins with them were always too ridiculous to be true

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    11 hours ago

    Because chavs existed. I saw them. My siblings saw them. There are various news reports. Not all working class people are chavs.

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      11 hours ago

      Chav is a derogatory synonym for working class people, though. It was made up to demonize the working class. News reports can be made up or fueled by hysteria.