Yes, I understand the function of slang as a group identifier. But if you use a form of expression to separate yourself from a power group and to encapsulate your rejection of it then you can't really be surprised when it rejects you.

Likewise almost all current forms of "mobo" of which I am aware seem to unify with behaviour designed to challenge the rules of the power structure. Of course all forms of "yoof" music do that but (maybe because I am getting older) mobo seems more clearly to embrace violence as a means of achievement than anything since the MC5 (remember them?) but further to embrace violence as normal social behaviour rather than a political protest. Behaviour in that style is a rejection of the values preferred by the power structure and again if you adopt that rejection then you cannot be surprised if the power structure rejects you.

Both speech habits and patterns of behaviour are matters of choice. It is asking a great deal of any command structure to say that it should make allowances for direct repudiation of it, and respond by inclusion.

Off to re-read teh thread