I’m with you now. Calling me “PC” wouldn’t offend or be racist (how could it be?), however if you called me “pikey”, “****” or “****”, on a cycling forum or anywhere else, then it would be. So, in summary calling people names on a cycling forum IS racist, if the names that you are calling someone are racist ones. But that’s not what we started off disagreeing about, was it? I think the disagreement is about whether “pikey” is racist. I maintain that it is.
OK yes on this we agree and it is in my view the whole nub of this thread, which come to think about jolly old argumentative Junkyard diverted down this path with the whole ‘pikey’ discussion. You know my opinion I do however accept your point and that you have the backing of the law, something until now I was unaware of, wrong in my view for all the points I made.
Perhaps you should be tasked with producing the official list of banned words and insults, jokes like my Religious Nutcases and Irish and then the thread be made a sticky for all the world to see, then we won’t have to live in constant fear of the humiliation of the ban hammer.