Do people still say 'chav'?

It's more about how it's used. My very working class MIL says chav and has no issue when it's about people being nasty members of society, but she tends not to use it about people as a label for *who they are as a person*. Class has been a deep-rooted issue in British society since before the Norman conquest, with abhorrent treatment of the poor that has extended to multiple generations of the same families again and again, and in the same way the rich stay rich, the poor mainly stay poor. Some people do chavvy things. They act like a chav. Call that shit out cause nasty people have no place. But I don't think it's right to label someone AS a chav. It's a term that gets used to put people down for an accent, or an outfit, or where they're from, or even something as simple as a name that they didn't pick for themselves. It gets used to assert class superiority, for the middle classes to feel like they have a position of power over someone at least. It gets used to avoid having to face systemic problems in our society, that create conditions that breed isolation from, and resentment for, society and it's participating members - if someone is just a "chav", that's why they're doing what they're doing, no need to think any harder. I've been around plenty of "real chavs". Chased, punched, throttled, etc. Fucking hated them at the time. Terrified of them too. I look back now and see where they came from, and how for the most part they seem to have pulled it out the bag and done alright for themselves now and grown up, I'm just impressed and happy for them that they've at least somewhat broken the cycle of poverty and anti-social behaviour and are working towards being contributing members of society. Because if we don't allow people the chance to do that, seriously what's the point in any of this? And we can't allow people the chance to change if we insist on labelling them in this way. [Labelling Theory (Wikipedia)] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labeling_theory#:~:text=Labeling%20theory%20posits%20that%20self,self%2Dfulfilling%20prophecy%20and%20stereotyping.)