Quote Originally Posted by JamesWales View Post
It's using an animal or food in a disparaging way to mock skin colour and is aimed only at one race.

It may be newer than calling someone a monkey or chocolate biscuit, it may (or may not) be said with less bile behind it, but the principle is the same.

It's a slur based on skin colour and is best well avoided.

Even at best, if it isn't a slur on skin colour (which is is) then it's mocking someone's physical appearance.

None of it seems reasonable to use in discussion of whether lockdowns were two intense or not, as there are perfectly reasonable opinions on both side of that debate, even if Bob can't see it.
A white man calling another white man a gammon is completely incomparable with someone calling a black man a monkey.

If you call someone ginge is that also racial abuse in your books, as only white people typically have ginger hair?