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This may seem kind of stupid but I am kind of stupid, is there a list somewhere of phrases that are stupid or insensitive racially or gender biased? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

For years I used the term "shylock" as a pejorative for greedy people while being ignorant of the connotations of using the characters name that way. I didn't even know it was from a Shakespeare play.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I tried to look but the most official one (from University of Washington) is kind of ridiculous. Following for better ideas.

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