I'm rather disappointed the ASA hasn't upheld the complaints. Suppose I failed to write to them myself, so I can hardly complain there.
I'm boggled by the idea that it can't be promoting violence because "nobody would admit to being a chav", after they quote the Wikipedia definition to describe them! Does discrimination always have to require that the person being discriminated against defines themself as a member of that group?? That would mean that calling a straight man "fag" wasn't homophobic, and that's just nonsense.
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Date: 2009-06-20 11:38 am (UTC)I'm boggled by the idea that it can't be promoting violence because "nobody would admit to being a chav", after they quote the Wikipedia definition to describe them! Does discrimination always have to require that the person being discriminated against defines themself as a member of that group?? That would mean that calling a straight man "fag" wasn't homophobic, and that's just nonsense.
Thanks for posting this!