Quote Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman View Post
I'm wrong. Sure I am.....

"It is a derogatory terms based on skin colour," you say. I'd argue it's a derogatory term based on politics rather than skin colour, but let's assume you're right. Does that automatically equate to it being a racist term?

Let me ask you a question: if I said you were a freckly git, would that be a racist term?
You're wrong about the guess at my age. Yes, you were wrong. You can be sometimes you know.

Can most people have freckles? Yes, so it wouldn't make light of what colour their skin was would it. If you were black and called me a white freckly git then ask yourself if that would be racist?

So, if a black man used the name gammon based purely on somebody's skin colour and thinking he was above them because of their backward political views would that not tick all the boxes of it being a racist name?

At the moment you have said that it isn't racist because it is a name that was made up by white people, which is debatable, but regardless of that are you saying it can't evolve and be used in a racist way by one race against another? If a black man had made the original terms about black people and white people adopted them would that make them any less racist?