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
    21·
    11 months 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.

    • 520@kbin.social
      102·
      11 months ago

      Yep. Can be things you wouldn’t even think about too. For example the word ‘spastic’ isn’t offensive in the US, but is deeply offensive in the UK, similar to the word ‘retard’