Laughing at the proles: C/D?

I think council estate residents, chavs, pramfaces, dole scroungers, whatever the condescending nu-media working class chooses to call them, represent a level of "acceptable poverty" that makes them fair game - I can't imagine a similar level of barbed humour being considered acceptable when talking about, say, the homeless, or pensioners living in squalour, or even asylum seekers (although the latter is becoming regrettably less so).

I could expand on this and say it possibly has something to do with the British welfare state but I am hungover and it would probably be bollocks anyway.

Most of the time I assume its invisibility is benign, then some assholish shit like this starts up.