Intent is always difficult and often impossible to judge.
There is no happy medium here, particularly since those seeking to offend and to wolfwhistle to signal their allegiance to other people who hate your race (for example) will try to couch their terms to hide within the shadows of plausible deniability unless they feel completely safe.
It's more a question of how many false positives and false negatives your culture is prepared to tolerate.
There is no happy medium here, particularly since those seeking to offend and to wolfwhistle to signal their allegiance to other people who hate your race (for example) will try to couch their terms to hide within the shadows of plausible deniability unless they feel completely safe.
It's more a question of how many false positives and false negatives your culture is prepared to tolerate.