Context dependence. Consider "Bonnie Susie Cleland". Scots noblewoman is burnt on a pyre by her own brothers because she wants to marry an Englishman. Horrific honour killing story with added nationalism.

But it never happened. Nor did any incident remotely like it. As performed to a Scottish audience, the only way to read it is as a tragic warning against that sort of bigotry.

Now imagine it taken up by an English nationalist and presented as historically factual. It then becomes a story about how bigoted, misogynistic and violent the Scots are. I would hope any performance that presented it that way would be interrupted.

Same words, two very different intentions.