Gammon is not racist

[likesfish]

It's not, being a middle age fat angry white racist bloke is not a protected group.

If you are angry at being called gammon you should probably have a good long hard look at yourself in the mirror.

nobody's going to be shoving gammon steaks through people letterboxes or screaming it at kids.

 

[Grump]

Gammon, gammon, do you want to be in my gang?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

What makes someone Gammon?

 

[kebabking]

What makes someone Gammon?

Looking like a Brexity Sun-reader. You know, like a thicky racist who shouldn't be allowed to vote...

 

[Magnus McGinty]

It’s not racist but at best a politically vacant jibe, at worst ‘progressives’ sneering at who they consider to be their inferiors.

 

[Spymaster]

What makes someone Gammon?

It's a pejorative term for white people often used by some PoC, particularly youngsters. Like honky or cracker.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Seems pretty racist to me - you have to white to be gammon, yeah? I'm not saying using the word is the worst crime ever but it does make you look silly and hypocritical IMO.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

It’s used by plenty of white people (liberals and the left) also (mostly?).

 

[FridgeMagnet]

It was invented by white people to describe red-faced ranting racist white people on Question Time. I can probably point to the few twitter accounts that started it off.

 

[Chilli.s]

I thought gammon was a descriptive term for ruddy faced chubby chaps that was used in the 1800's, not necessarily racist in that context.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

It’s ageist.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

It was invented by white people to describe red-faced ranting racist white people on Question Time. I can probably point to the few twitter accounts that started it off.

But gammon is pink.

 

[two sheds]

It’s ageist.

Are you calling me gammon?

 

[Magnus McGinty]

It’s ageist.

And with a class element in some cases.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

But gammon is pink.

It means <frothing angry face>

 

[Johnny Vodka]

And with a class element in some cases.

And probably a bit baldist.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

 

[Magnus McGinty]

And probably a bit baldist.

Mostly someone’s views rather than their appearance. Of course they love it if the appearance is ageing fat bald white bloke but ageing fat bald white blokes who aren’t UKIP seldom receive the moniker.

 

[keybored]

If you are angry at being called gammon

Is anyone?

 

[Thimble Queen]

Gammon is full haram tbf.

 

[Treacle Toes]

It's a pejorative term for white people often used by some PoC, particularly youngsters. Like honky or cracker.

Can you stop this nonsense of attributing it to young POC.

It started as a description of red faced male racists on QT AFAIR...it's trickled into youth speak. It was coined by White people about White people.

 

[Thimble Queen]

I honestly haven't heard anyone use the term honky since the early 90s. Young people today do not even know what it is.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

We’ve done this before on here and my position remains that it is bad politics to conflate simeone’s physical appearance with their views.

 

[Spymaster]

...it's trickled into youth speak.

And in that context it is a racist term.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Whether or not it’s racist is a complete distraction that people seem magnetically fixated on.

 

[keybored]

We’ve done this before on here and my position remains that it is bad politics to conflate simeone’s physical appearance with their views.

I'm dreading the day I get unfairly called a "gammon", being white, male and in my 40s. I'm also losing hair but can't exactly help male pattern baldness. And yes, my face is often red. Burning all these crosses produces a lot of heat.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

We’ve done this before on here and my position remains that it is bad politics to conflate simeone’s physical appearance with their views.

Aye, you're correct. It's like someone's political views gives you the right to take the piss out of a certain appearance.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

We’ve done this before on here and my position remains that it is bad politics to conflate simeone’s physical appearance with their views.

Agreed. But it's a hard habit to shake sometimes. Here's the original gammon image. I mean, c'mon

 

[Fozzie Bear]

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Agreed. But it's a hard habit to shake sometimes. Here's the original gammon image. I mean, c'mon

There are a load of people who look like that in this country though. They don’t all believe the same things.

 

[cantsin]

It's a pejorative term for white people often used by some PoC, particularly youngsters. Like honky or cracker.

suspect lot more crackers using it than PoC's