In defense of Brigitte Bardot...sued for racist language regarding inhabitants of Reunion

http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/celebrity/brigitte-bardot-faces-lawsuit-over-racist-comments-about-french-island/ar-BBV1Dfa?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=iehp

How is Bardot's choice of words today any worse than "Mission Civilisatrice" of France to refer to  Vietnam before 1945? 

True, in black and white pictures of early 20th century's Vietnam during French colonization, only mandarin-ministers and the Emperor had shoes to wear. Court musicians, officials, guards and soldiers went barefoot...Could someone say that was "primitive"? 

The island of Reunion spoken of by Bardot plus Madagascar were places where France sent the dissident emperors of Vietnam into exile (called Annam back then, well, it wasn't that long ago!!!)