wylanderuk

Aye I agree entirely with context matters, but it was the start of the entire "context no longer matters" line of thinking at least from what I remember.

But I find explaining something "is x" instead of screaming it is much more likely to work or at the very least even if there is disagreement on the point.

A example from fucking years ago me and a couple of my friends used to refer to Al Leong as the "disposable gook" due to his many and varied roles as a dead man walking henchman in action movies (my fave being him being taken out by a ice cream cone in the last action hero) and long after we had came up with it I said it in front of a Chinese co-worker who said that is pretty racist. He explained his point (which did not take long and was on point) and he was right, also he accepted it was in no way meant to be derogatory and it ended up being a discussion of our fave movies with that actor in it.

Oh aye and just in passing I have pulled people for using "paki" in context of being a racist fuckhead. But that was because they were being a racist cunt.