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Originally Posted by The Yen Man
For sure, and again to reiterate, I'm not trying to defend Peters, or say he didn't use the phrase as a racial slur in this situation. I'm just saying in some other cases we hear about, I get confused sometimes on whether or not the word should ever be used, even if was meant in a totally different context.
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I just don't think it is at all possible to separate Peters's intention from the offence and the outcome. It strains credulity to think that he was somehow unaware of the—at best implicit—racism in addressing his comments to a Nigerian-born black player. But moreover, it doesn't—it shouldn't—matter that his remarks are possibly construed less offensively. Even if this were true (I'm not sure it is) the fact of the matter is that what happened was completely unacceptable.
In tend to think that there is no appropriate usage for the word in question—it should never be used. But to clarify a somehow muddy situation, let's put it this way:
There is no acceptable context for my usage of the word. None. There is also no acceptable context for Peters's usage of the word. None.