Are you talking about in Portuguese? There's two words for "black" in that language, "preto" and "negro". My rudimentary understanding of Portuguese is that "preto" tends to be used more to describe items being black, and that it's the more likely word to be used if someone's being racist, but just the other day someone told me that either word can hold racist connotations depending on how they're used (but that "preto" is more commonly used in a racist context).
Yes it’s contextual, it’s not like the germanic languages where the N word is always a stigmatic expression.
But in latin languages those words entirely depend on the context. Context is what makes them so. I think JJ mainly reacted because of the context not actually because of the N word itself, as in Portuguese it’s used for so many other things than just describing certain individuals, if he had said Preto he likely would have killed Acerbi.
Yes Preto can and is often used for that
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