The term was created to describe white men old bean.
A term used to describe a particular type of Brexit-voting,
europhobic, middle-aged
white male, whose meat-faced complexion suggests they are perilously close to a stroke
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gammon
There's quite an array of explanations in the Urban Dictionary, wally.
Here's another:
The description better matches remainers however due to the fact that the majority of the protestors against Brexit are often
Labour voters
Here's another:
Northern Australian Slang (Primarily in the NT)
Popular among the aboriginal people and other people who have lived in the NT (especially alice springs) for a few years.
And another:
A term of derision used by the metropolitan elite to describe those with differing views and opinions.
“I’m appalled by the term ‘gammon’ now frequently entering the lexicon of so many (mainly on the left),” she tweeted yesterday. “This is a term based on skin colour and age – stereotyping by colour or age is wrong no matter what race, age or community.”
https://www.newstatesman.com/politi...t-wing-insult-gammon-racist-towards-white-men
From your source:
But the latest insult has caused the most backlash. “Gammon” has increasingly become shorthand for a conservative middle-aged man, who is raging and red in the face when voicing his opinions, which are generally unimaginative tropes swallowed straight from right-wing tabloids.
Going by my memory, “gammon” was first used as a political put-down in columns by
The Times journalist Caitlin Moran
Last year, a tweeter pointed out the identical scarlet and irate expressions of
Question Time audience members during the post-general election special, calling them the “Great Wall of gammon”. This led to the use of a hashtag to mock
over-representation of middle-aged white men: “
#wallofgammon”.
Do you see any reference to any ethnicity there? I can't, wally. The phrase '
over-representation of middle-aged white men' absolutely does not preclude any other ethnicity.
The comment you presented was an opinion of one. Let's put a name to that one person:
Democratic Unionist Party MP Emma Little-Pengelly.
Well Cor blimey, it's only a DUP MP (well known for their bigoted political attitudes). A daughter of a known terrorist:
If you prefer the Urban Dictionary, or the Newstatesman, or even the opinion of DUP MPs over more authoritative publications, that's your choice.
But you are a proven racist, who tells lies, so your opinion is of little consequence.