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[–]anonymale 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There's tons of appearance-based racial prejudice within different races and ethnicities...If you're unaware of this, you need to explore more.

Fucking hell, why not just tell me to check my privilege: it would have been easier to type. I'm one of those people who caught shit for looking Irish and regularly got assaulted for it into my twenties. A close relative has a large facial disfigurement. We both knew plenty about appearance-based prejudice before we left primary school.

In contrast, gammons got their name because of their behaviour, not because of something they're unable to change. It's because they so easily lose their shit about things which are not a threat to them. There are plenty of affluent middle-aged white men who are not thought of as gammons because they discuss their similarly abhorrent opinions calmly. For example Jacob Rees-Mogg affably shifting blame for Grenfell fire victims' deaths on a talk radio station. Any gammon who doesn't like the label can simply learn to discuss politics without ranting.

This is beside my main point anyway, which is that tv discussions like the one this thread is about are just means for tv companies to sell audiences to advertisers. They are not meant to inform.