@Commune
If you want to speak about context, then consider: According to my swedish wife, the word “nigger” doesn’t mean remotely the same thing to a swede. It’s never carried the sort of racial connotations in Swedish culture that it does in western anglo culture. Its equivalent in Swedish literally just means “black person”.
Swedes often use English insults and swear-words because they sound exotic to them. They use them because they carry moreweight, but they aren’t necessarily aware of, or don’t care about the baggage that those words carry
because that baggage isn’t native to their culture. They used the words outside of their context, and in so doing transform them into simple insults.
The word’s use as an insult, by a swede, should be examined and understood in that context: as an insult, it’s only used in the same way that an australian would use cunt. Its use offensively is nothing to do with race and entirely to do with the fact that it would get a reaction.
PP would of course be aware of the other connotations of the word, but English isn’t his native language, nor would his thinking me immersed in English idiom. Watching the stream, it’s obvious how things played out: he threw the insult in the heat of the moment, then belatedly realised the additional meanings it would carry to his primarily english-speaking audience and
immediately apologised.
That’s the context to be considered, if we must consider context.
