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Yeah. That isn’t racist (because you weren’t denigrating someone due to racial prejudice). You were denigrating them due to language ignorance. This could have the appearance of being racist to anyone who understood the language but who didn’t know you well.
Not that it’s matters. Just an observation. I wonder if these are such recurring problems is that it depends on intent which isn’t falsifiable and therefore it’s all pseudoscience.
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I have been accidentally racist. My Pakistani friend has a little brother, his whole family always called him khalia, I thought this was just some Urdu pet name for him so called him it also for about 10 years. I then found out it means 'blackie' a derogatory name for black people and jokingly applied to said little brother due to his dark complexion, felt like a bit of a prick but saw the funny side