Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
Were people who get called gammon born that colour? No they weren't, they are Caucasians who turn that colour under certain conditions. I've just seen a Brighton player being taken off whose face was definitely gammon coloured because he'd been expending a lot of energy for an hour on a warm night. People can turn gammon coloured when they get embarrassed, there are those who become redder as they get older and there are those who redden when they get worked up about something.

No one calls someone gammon for the first two reasons I outlined, it's always directed at those who go red for one or both of the last two reasons and even then it's not aimed at everyone in those categories, only those who display certain characteristics, so it's not directed at all white people who turn red, only some - that doesn't sound like a dictionary definition of racism to me.

This thread was started because of an incident that arose as a result of the recent attention paid to the BLM movement. Did you join this thread to express solidarity with it? It certainly doesn't appear that way to me based on everything you've said so far - quite the opposite in fact.
I joined it to question the gammon name that was in the second post in the thread.

If you didn't like me mentioning it or thought it took the thread off track then replying to me doesn't help. I actually gave my opinion on the subject matter in the first sentence of my first post.

You say it is the red face that people are drawing attention to. Do you think a black man would be described as a gammon? If you do then we will have to disagree.
If it is specifically aimed at white people purely because of the colour of their skin, regardless of political leanings, then again we'll have to disagree.