There was a rather famous case about that some years back in Washington, DC. I white management person in the DC government referred to a small budget allocation for poor people as “niggardly”. Some people took offence believing he had used the N word. He lost his job and even the loud protests on his behalf by people who actually understood the word he used did NOT save his job.
These two examples, and looks like one or two others:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2804064/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2859652/posts
Yep - ignorant mob rule seems to be the long term trend for the Left - they blew a lot of time/effort/cash trying to make it absolute in the fight against Kavanaugh...I wonder if Hillary finds that concept “horrifying”....