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Those are both really important things to take into consideration, I'm just not clear how they apply to this particular situation in which a white, middle-class man has made an apparently racist comment to a black, (probably) middle-class man. This would seem to be one of those (possibly rare) situations in which we can scrutinise issues around race and racism in isolation.
(I did read your other comment before you binned it, happy to edit to more accurately reflect the intent behind your previous comment).
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Look. He's obviously a bell-end (Laurence Fox that is, not @stevo_com). I'm perfectly happy to talk about how it's really problematic for a white person to use the word "ape" in a discussion with a black person. I'd just like some clarification as to why class and gender are useful things to bring into the discussion. If an accusation of racism was met with "but I'm a woman!" or "but I'm working class!" that would be bullshit.