Just found out the origin of “grandfathered in”.
What else has a problematic history you didn’t realize until later?
Words and attitudes towards the Romani people. Like damn most forms of racism is called out but like Europe has like a searing hatred for them. Also stopped using the word and various of it.
I’m shocked at how common the term “gypped” still is, and most people using it seem to not even know it has anything to do with Romani (I didn’t back when I still used the term).
I’ve been trying to get “anglo’d” to catch on as a replacement.
Yeah, I don’t care about the word Gypsy being used (as someone who is Roma) but ‘gypped’ does make me genuinely upset
There was a thread in /r/france a few hours ago on Romani people that is just abominable - just full on hatred in the whole thread. All highly upvoted comments.
Similarly, “sold down the river” refers to when “troublesome” slaves were sold to more brutal plantations in the Deep South
Learning about IMF and how they enslave developing countries made me a socialist lol
we watched life and debt in my anthro class and it sealed the deal
After the Civil War, slave owners were granted reparations for their freed slaves, which helped them to preserve the wealth they lost through losing their slaves.
I knew a libertarian fuck who thought that was the right thing to do.
“Off the reservation”. Like it’s obvious on its face if you think about it for two seconds, but it’s just an idiom, I never thought about it.
What the other guy said, it’s something you hear in like a cop movie where the chief says to the maverick hero cop “you’re off the reservation Johnson!” because he’s been doing maverick cop stuff.
I’m not super familiar with the idiom in common parlance, how is it usually used?
