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this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2023
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No seriously, you're fucking with me, right?
The original conversation was about how it's offensive to compare employees to animals or slaves, so the metaphor is offensive either way, because those are the two situations where one might "crack the whip" as a means of motivation.
Nothing I said touched on its offensiveness or lack thereof, merely the inaccuracies of your statements about the historical context. Of course, in your mind, that equates to me approving of or ignoring it.
Got it, you just wanted to be right about something so you tried to change ths subject to something irrelevant you could nitpick.
I wasn't making statements about the historical context, I said that the historical context doesn't matter because it's offensive either way. I was literally saying I don't care about whatever you want to talk about. So forgive me for misunderstanding your point.