Gammon is not racist

[Santino]

An uninteresting non-twist is you popping up every few pages to make a snide content-free comment.

Why are you so angry with people 'popping up' on threads? We can't all contribute to every page.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Why are you so angry with people 'popping up' on threads? We can't all contribute to every page.

You don't contribute, full stop. You simply turn up every now and again to tell someone how stupid they are. Waste of space.

 

[Spymaster]

... he did not regard it as actual racism.

Then he’s stupid.

 

[Spymaster]

Why are you so angry with people 'popping up' on threads? We can't all contribute to every page.

It’s his MO. Bang him on ignore. You’ll miss absolutely nothing as nobody bothers quoting him either.

 

[belboid]

So yesterday you were insisting that prejudice had to be bolstered by an unequal power dynamic to qualify as racism yet here you are today telling us that you have experienced anti-white racism yourself where such power dynamic was absent.

even you must have seen the inverted commas around the phrase. This is generally accepted as referring to a well known, but disputed phrase. Scare quotes, used to show you think the word is probably nonsense.

 

[lucillemara]

I'm sorry for not assuring people they're not personally responsible for violence. I'm sorry for not prefacing every mention of imperial violence with an assurance that ordinary people shouldn't feel bad about it.

I've been insulted for being white. It was like being hit with a feather.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Then he’s stupid.

says the person who misread his post.

 

[belboid]

Everyone who doesn't agree with Spymaster's opinions is obviously an idiot with a dodgy MO.

Phew, that makes everything in life remarkably simple.

 

[Santino]

Everyone who doesn't agree with Spymaster's opinions is obviously an idiot with a dodgy MO.

Phew, that makes everything in life remarkably simple.

Bang them all on ignore so we can sit around fine-tuning our definition of racism.

 

[Spymaster]

even you must have seen the inverted commas around the phrase.

I actually didn’t notice them as I’m posting from a park in the sun on my phone, so I’ll take that one on the chin. Got loads more for you later anyway.

 

[klang]

I’m posting from a park in the sun on my phone

good for you! some of us have our line mangers breathing down our necks.

 

[Pickman's model]

good for you! some of us have our line mangers breathing down our necks.

some of us are discussing this with our managers

 

[klang]

some of us are discussing this with our managers

most of us manage to discuss nothing.

 

[lucillemara]

look at this racism

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Yes dear.

 

[Spymaster]

Everyone who doesn't agree with Spymaster's opinions is obviously an idiot with a dodgy MO.

I wouldn’t go so far as to include everyone but if the category exists, you are most certainly in it.

 

[nuffsaid]

Just throwing my tuppence in.

The op is correct as there is no race of Gammons. Therefore the term Gammon is not racist. There are many individuals whose appearance can be likened to a gammon steak, and those individuals are all white-caucasian males. But not all white-caucasian males look like gammons so it cannot be a racist term.

Sorry if this was mentioned before, but this sort of thing gets my goat. Calling some one a Jock, Taff, Spic, Dago are NOT racist terms as those terms relate to a persons nationality, not their race. Race is about minor differences in DNA, not man-made geo-political labels. And I've read that geneticists will argue that the genetic differences between the races (that we've labelled in the past) are so incredibly small as to be redundant and there is only one race, the human race.

The errant gammon (although he's not very red so not very gammon-like) in the incident on Ryannair did use racist language and should be convicted of hate crime.

 

[Pickman's model]

most of us manage to discuss nothing.

 

[klang]

I'm sorry for not assuring people they're not personally responsible for violence

 

[TopCat]

Just throwing my tuppence in.

The op is correct as there is no race of Gammons. Therefore the term Gammon is not racist. There are many individuals whose appearance can be likened to a gammon steak, and those individuals are all white-caucasian males. But not all white-caucasian males look like gammons so it cannot be a racist term.

Sorry if this was mentioned before, but this sort of thing gets my goat. Calling some one a Jock, Taff, Spic, Dago are NOT racist terms as those terms relate to a persons nationality, not their race. Race is about minor differences in DNA, not man-made geo-political labels. And I've read that geneticists will argue that the genetic differences between the races (that we've labelled in the past) are so incredibly small as to be redundant and there is only one race, the human race.

The errant gammon (although he's not very red so not very gammon-like) in the incident on Ryannair did use racist language and should be convicted of hate crime.

Come to my workplace and call my colleague a spic. He will explain how racist this is as he punches you repeatedly in the head.

 

[lucillemara]

colonialism? what does that have to do with whiteness?

 

[ElizabethofYork]

You think you're being very clever, lucillemara, but you're really not.

 

[Pickman's model]

colonialism? what does that have to do with whiteness?

yeh. i'm sure you see just how you undermine your own points just as you think you're making them.

 

[TopCat]

colonialism? what does that have to do with whiteness?

I feel like I'm being repeatedly lectured by someone more stupid than Gavin Barwell.

 

[Pickman's model]

I feel like I'm being repeatedly lectured by someone more stupid than Gavin Barwell.

the difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits - albert einstein

 

[Wilf]

I feel like I'm being repeatedly lectured by someone more stupid than Gavin Barwell.

Yeah, it's no fun now. Think I'll have to go back to the How Much Does a Poo Weigh thread.

 

[nuffsaid]

Come to my workplace and call my colleague a spic. He will explain how racist this is as he punches you repeatedly in the head.

Doesn't matter, it's related to nationality.

 

[The39thStep]

Just throwing my tuppence in.

The op is correct as there is no race of Gammons. Therefore the term Gammon is not racist. There are many individuals whose appearance can be likened to a gammon steak, and those individuals are all white-caucasian males. But not all white-caucasian males look like gammons so it cannot be a racist term.

Sorry if this was mentioned before, but this sort of thing gets my goat. Calling some one a Jock, Taff, Spic, Dago are NOT racist terms as those terms relate to a persons nationality, not their race. Race is about minor differences in DNA, not man-made geo-political labels. And I've read that geneticists will argue that the genetic differences between the races (that we've labelled in the past) are so incredibly small as to be redundant and there is only one race, the human race.

The errant gammon (although he's not very red so not very gammon-like) in the incident on Ryannair did use racist language and should be convicted of hate crime.

So Wops ok then ? Pakis ? By the way which nationality are Spics and Dagos?

 

[A380]

...I said white people exist because of colonialism.

I thought we existed because the pre-historic diet had no vitamin D and so people with the mutation of lighter skin who could make more of it from the reduced sunlight at higher latitudes than could people with the more ‘normal’ darker skin tones increased their populations.

Besides I’m not white, I’m more gammon coloured.

 

[butchersapron]

I feel like I'm being repeatedly lectured by someone more stupid than Gavin Barwell.

I feel like i'm back at school being lectured by a middle class trendy lefty pottery teacher for distributing class war.