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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I was talking about history, backed by common knowledge which can be easily corroborated, and not very much my opinion about those acts, except the last sentence.

Also, people are animals. Perhaps you could use that as a reason to treat animals better instead of as an excuse to treat people worse.

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You’re fucking with me, right?

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Sure I am. It’s not like the first child abuse case in America wasn’t fought using an animal cruelty law…

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What, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck are you talking about? What does that have to do with anything even remotely related to this conversation?

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