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?

Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 160 points –

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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Rice rocket was a term used for modified Japanese cars, and ricing your car meant turning it into a rice rocket.

I thought "ricing" meant submerging your stuff in rice to get the moisture out to stop water damage.

Slang can mean different things, depending on context

What! No one's ever told me that before!