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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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[-] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

How?

[-] kakes@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 months ago

How is it a slur, you mean?

"Used by soldiers during the Korean and Vietnam Wars; multiple hypotheses exist as to the specific origin. One is that if an East Asian person were shot in the middle of the forehead with a machine gun, the head would split as if being unzipped; another, that the appearance of tire tracks on a body having been run over by a military Jeep or that of tank tracks resembled a zipper."
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/zipperhead

[-] Vlaxtocia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 11 months ago

Jesus fucking Christ, I assumed it was a "hurr durr narrow eyes" racist thing, what you've said/linked is way worse

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Koreans all have zippers on their heads. They used to have buttons, but that changed in the early 1950s.

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