An intelligent discussion about the vilificaiton of the bogan appeared on Fairfax news sites today. It argues that bogans are the one group it’s considered acceptable to sneer at, and discusses jealousy as part of the motivation. I feel slightly mortified, but I’m not going to stop reading Things Bogans Like. Sneering is wrong but the fact is that crassness dominates Australia, and I don’t think it’s a good thing. The bogans may be vilified by the ‘cultural elite’, but boganism is regrettably dominant in our society. It is right to identify and discuss boganism because it is the mainstream, it is the assumed values of suburbia, it is commerical tv.
Persecution of the Bogan
28 Monday Jun 2010
Posted in Uncategorized
Nathan Hobby, a biographer in Perth 
Hey Nathan,
I’m growing in compassion for the bogans in my neck of the woods. They were the people who didn’t do well at school, had few toys to play with growing up and were told a trade was there only option and now are earning good money. Instead of spending all that money on a mortgage to be in an elite suburb they’ve settled for the suburbs they grew up in and have bought themselves all the nice toys they never had. The racism, maybe that’s a result of the little brother who always got kicked turning around and kicking the cat.
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Hey Chris, sorry, late reply. You have made me think. I understand you feeling compassion for these bogans in your neck of the wood. And I’m not calling for a lack of compassion for these people, but I am lamenting the dominance of bogan culture in Australia. Ideas, thinkers, art, books are so marginalised.
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I don’t understand this.
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