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by kube-system 1827 days ago
That, objectively, is enough context to determine the usage given the usage notes for that word in both Websters and OSX built-in dictionaries.
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I'm not sure I follow? Are you saying the context here is that she is white and that is therefore enough for it to automatically be derogatory racist usage? That sounds... racist.
That's a question that is sociological in nature, and far beyond the scope of the well-defined linguistic meaning of the word, which was what I was commenting on.