The flipside, I think, is also true. Being told over and over again in an international and public forum that that word doesn't just have local context seems more like spite than ignorance after a while if it keeps getting used.

Also, I highly doubt the cop was being chummy with the Aboriginal person here. Did cultural context matter there?

Taking that far enough, if a bunch of Deep South :lmayo: really wanted to use their own cultural contexts to talk about black people and wanted to play the cultural context card to demand the entire world let them say all the :frothingfash: they desire, hard-rs and all, should that be given the same pass?

I've argued with chanlords, including offline, about their use of transphobic slurs, which they claim are "joking/ironic" and then claim that "some (transphobic slur here)s like being called that." Same deal.