Interesting post. The—I shall dub it—Schrödinger’s Racist example is very good, and it brings me cold-warm fuzzies of indignant recognition from my experiences of ‘Not really racist’/‘Just banter’/etc., even if that’s not for what you were aiming.
Edit after a brief a-Googling: Hah! Someone beat me to ‘Schrödinger’s racist’.
See also: (Meta) Poe’s Law.
Interesting post. The—I shall dub it—Schrödinger’s Racist example is very good, and it brings me cold-warm fuzzies of indignant recognition from my experiences of ‘Not really racist’/‘Just banter’/etc., even if that’s not for what you were aiming.
Edit after a brief a-Googling: Hah! Someone beat me to ‘Schrödinger’s racist’.