The term gammon was coined by a white journalist and is about the flushed face of a person who's in the middle of ranting. So.......no?
What have black people and the N-word got to do with this. It's a british term used between white british, it's pejorative but it has nothing to do with racism, black people or the N-word.
Whataboutism. It's origin is as a pejorative slur against African Americans during a period of time when said African Americans were bought and sold to work as slaves.
Depends on the black person just like it does white people. So yes. What a daft question.
This is the non sequitur to rule all non sequiturs. Once again "gammon" is a reference to angry white old men turning flush complaining about stuff like just personally don't like, usually on mass media with their words heard by millions. The n word was a racial slur used to dehumanise African Americans during the time of slave trading and has existed since then through decades of discrimination, physical attacks and even murders in silence. Do try and keep up.
If this was meant to be your version of a mic drop you should have maybe spent more time making sure that the previous sentences before it weren't a massive load of shite.
Shut up you gammon
That is the worst thing I have ever read.
Are you seriously using that pejorative slur to associate the whiteness of snow with a white persons skin tone? Do black people get visibly cold when they touch snow?
So desperate to be offended ey, snowflake?
I can’t be racist, some of my best friends are gammon.
Did you miss the post that spawned this?
I read it, I asked the question in a general sense because that was the only I'd seen gammon compared to the n-word.
This is the most gammon thing I have ever read.
Ah, similar meaning then.
Jesus.
Black people have appropriated the term to remove its power. I guess they can use it to insult each other but generally it isn't used that way. It means something totally different than when a white person uses it as a racist insult/term.
I've never seen a black person ranting about Brexit but that aside just because people described as gammons tend to be white, middle aged men doesn't make the term racist any more than it is ageist or sexist. It is an insult for sure.
You know the answer to this.
Gammon is insulting an attitude and opinion and not a race. Uncle Tom is an insult that only applies to black people but it isn't a racist term. It is a description of an attitude/opinion.
Just out of interest I looked through the rest of his post history. A summary is:
This is a bit of a "Leopards ate my face" situation
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I genuinely wonder beyond a few tabloid headlines how big an issue this is?
It’s banned in the EU as it’s seen as a substitute for poor welfare standards for chickens. The EU have pushed for welfare standards to be higher instead. It’s not the chorline bit they have concerns about but that it basically is a cop out for poor farming standards.
( I know - I literally quoted that in my post) and as I say - how many people really care about that - I'm not aware of swathes of UK tourists refusing to eat chicken in America because of lower farming standards.
A lot of the farmers in this country are concerned. They have adhered to strict rules on animal welfare and with this, it is a bit of a slap in the face. They will be affected by imports such as this.
indeed - though for an industry that uses 69% of the land, employs 1.5% of people and contributes 0.6% to our gross added value again i wonder how big an issue it really is in trade talks beyond a few bad headlines about chlorinated chickens
Full bodied gammon.
I had a gammon taxi driver once. Salt of the earth. Wouldn't want him as a neighbor mind etc etc etc
I still think so many points are being missed about the future relationship, not only with the EU but the rest of the world.
exactly... the recession will be because of corona... but the eventual recovery will all be because of "getting brexit done"
I'm surprised we even bother turning up to negotiations.
I'm convinced that the lasting impact of Brexit will be that the UK will welcome EU people into the country to work and live because we need them but will have effectively stopped our own population from doing the same around Europe. Struggling to see any positives.
There are 3 potential positives:
