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.

  • vivadanang@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    7 months ago

    where does everyone stand on cretin? IMHO it’s medical use is obsolete afaik, so really it’s just an insult right?

    • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      3·
      7 months ago

      I think it might have originated in the Bible. Paul says in Titus‬ ‭1:12‭-‬13‬ ‭NIV‬‬

      "One of Crete’s own prophets has said it: ‘Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons.’ This saying is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith.

      I always found it comical that Paul, the great apostle, endorsed this stereotype of the people of Crete.

        • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world
          11·
          7 months ago

          Isn’t it somebody that experienced an iodine deficiency in childhood. There’s a particular look, he doesn’t have it.

        • kWazt@lemmy.world
          12·
          7 months ago

          He’s wealthy, or at least he’s treated as such most of the time, so the word you’re looking for is eccentric.

          • vivadanang@lemm.eeEnglish
            32·
            7 months ago

            No, shitbag, fuckwit and narcissistic treason douche are all more appropriate than eccentric.

            being rich doesn’t mean you can’t be a fuckwit, and he’s proven it time and again.