• Why your social media might contain gammon
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http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-44108080
This is a nuanced and wholly mature response that is likely to sway the beliefs of those targeted.
Who actually cares about the "latest fad", BBC?
Clearly BBC cares enough to write an article about it
Why your social media might contain Gamon: [img]https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/wowwiki/images/a/a1/Gamon209.png/revision/latest?cb=20070414152024[/img]
Comparing ham to the complexion of angry middle-aged white men is the latest internet culture battle. Oh boy, somebody on here is gonna pull the racism card about that
But stereotyping based on skin colour is textbook racism.
I thought this was facepunch cutting off a title mid-word again, never heard of gammon before.
Man watching the outrage for this is fucking beautifully ironic.
Twitter summed up in one image.
https://twitter.com/SW11simon/status/995999290794364930 It just gets better
You can't be racist to "white' people"! Not that I think this new "twitter fad" is racist.
So let me get this straight: Creating a negative stereotype based entirely on skin colour is ok as long its against white people. Colour me a /pol/ack if you want i guess but isn't the left's general consensus that racism is bad? I fail to see how something like snowflake and libtard, or even conservashit and nazi apply to someone's skin colour rather than someone's ideology.
Another example how Boomers are a mindset and affect everyone regardless of age and political alignment. The best way to spot one is if their "jokes" about their rivals are lame as fuck.
I didn't see this term at all until I google searched the term just now and all see are left leaning sites talk about it, for instance the guardian "no gammon is not a racial term". It seems silly to argue about it over-wise like pineapple pizza. I think to make things for the better is to use the joke about yourself. "this gammon here has been cured to perfection, just look at my 12 inch pastrami" "gammon give me a break, you've been porkin up the wrong tree" "gammon season has arrived, only bears allowed"
Oh christ I hope the BBC doesn't start just stuffing their site with articles about memes.
too late there: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-44108850
You guys might want to actually check the BBC site and realize its still mostly news before you pick out some goofy meme articles and declare the organisation dead.
Allow me to explain why people aren't being sympathetic. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/159354/e357c1e2-ac6d-4ab7-9b38-75037d57baf3/gammon.png Waah, I got insulted on twitter!
So we can apply this standard across the board and you wouldn't have a problem with it, right?
I've always taken the assumption that calling someone a "gammon" is to infer they have the intellect of a fish.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/159354/c6155856-83bc-450c-9bf1-9f11d60f7ce9/gammon2.png
Or, you could just answer the question.
Everything about this just seems pathetic.
I'm not sure the post contains "bad faith" as much as creating a hypothetical situation and asking what reaction would be to it. Personally I wouldn't have any problem with said standard being applied across the board but that's just me.
I went reductive and you went literal and turned a simplistic explanation into a set of rules. The best way I can explain gammon not being something to care about is that "nobody cares about it*" yet. *nobody cares about it meaning that there's no lives ruined over it / it's not that widespread right now, it's not some kind of insult that follows you from childhood to adulthood, we're in the exploratory meme phase where the news JUST reported on it and there's no feel for if anything will come of it apart from a retort to the term snowflake and it's not clear cut if it's even actually racist because it's coined by white people for white people who voted for brexit (so they're probably well-off and voted to suffer the economic hardships that would come of brexit for some personal reasons) which is why the needle was in the middle for how racist it /looks/ as opposed to how racist it is. tl;dr there's no history to it yet.
Thank you for actually answering. That's all I wanted.
um, they've been doing this for five years now.
Is it still racist if a white person calls a ruddy faced old white man gammon?
Won't someone think of the children?! We shouldn't let people post such offensive slurs on the internet!
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