I just got up from conversation with a couple of older black men, that I said “well I got to go back to work and start cracking the whip.” And it occurred to me then that it was probably a really insensitive stupid thing to say.

Sadly, it hadn’t occurred to me until it’s already said.

  • Thisfox@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    And it is locational. Something insensitive in the US might be insensitive here in Oz or over in Europe… Or might not.

    That is how idiom works.

    • Christian@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      10 months ago

      This is kind of tangential, but I don’t think I ever would have known that “poof” was an anti-gay slur in Britain if I hadn’t played Pokemon White. I wanted to.use that as a nickname and had to look up online why the game was preventing me.