Pisco on his way to defend calling black criminals "Thugs" on FOX because it's "factually accurate"

i actually can't comprehend how he thinks the argument around her intended usage is irrelevant because of how a reader could, potentially, perceive the language differently based on where they are in a global context

Taylor lives in America. she writes for an American audience. she does American media tours. talks to American political figures. covers American politics.

by his logic you should be able to write a book similar to Huckleberry Finn where you just call a black person the N-word, & it's not racist even if that's what you as the author intended because everyone knows that the N-word refers to black [ PEOPLE ] not necessarily the mental image of the racist caricature of a black person from the 1800's...... obviously