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.

  • Lvxferre@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    However, the determination of offensive speech is not in the hands of the speaker, but rather in the reception by the listener.

    Descriptively speaking, I think that it’s more complex than it looks like - the determination depends on the linguistic community, not just the listener.