Perhaps, but if she is as well-educated as she wants us to think she should use the correct word. I'm really not interested in how her friends misspell or mispronounce words.
Yep, but she is an interesting case, isn’t she? Here is a woman firmly ensconced in the upper middle class who seems desperate to retain both her class privileges and her identity as a member in good standing of the Oppressed based on the color of her skin. That’s a jangling bundle of cognitive dissonance going on there.