sheldrake

But there is the thing of Ross/Brand's comments being directed at Sachs, and by direct association his granddaughter (although, yes, in a broadcast), and it was kind of limited and specific to those two, however silly they both were, and however many Daily Mail readers got up-in-arms about it and took it further. With Thatcher (and again although her comment was made to/about one person, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, and was therefore specific) the nature of what she said implicitly offends an entire race, by association. I feel there's some difference in it.

In a broadcast or "off duty", it's the word. And it's also the nature of it, its intent and what surrounds it that's the issue.