• U de Recife@literature.cafe
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    11 months ago

    Maybe it’s because I’m a foreigner; maybe I’m also too disconnected, but I didn’t get half of the supposed contentious items listed in this post.

    Reading the comments, I was like, ‘oh, that’s what they meant by…’. The body count really surprised me, and in a negative way. Body count sounds so… tasteless. But who cares. Since I don’t use that expression, I’ll probably forget it soon (the good side of having a lousy memory).

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      11 months ago

      Body count sounds so… tasteless.

      It is. Definitely not something I’d include under “modern discourse”. I’d say a co-worker asking that and using that particular term is the one that’s disconnected from the present.

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        11 months ago

        They’re drunk playing truth or dare, really doesn’t seem that disconnected from the present to me to ask for their body count in that context.

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          11 months ago

          Guess we live and work in different environments. The only place I still see people talking that way and using such excuses for it is in the mandatory sexual harassment training videos.