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Can you elaborate? The parent didn't say it was disrespectful toward individuals, though they may have meant Cain, since he was black. But regardless of whether
by happytoexplain 6y ago
Can you elaborate? The parent didn't say it was disrespectful toward individuals, though they may have meant Cain, since he was black. But regardless of whether that intention is true, the parent's point (that making a pun explicitly about chain gangs to label your social/political group is disrespectful) seems like a reasonable opinion, that you may challenge specifically.
- adrianmonk 6y agoI have no opinion on whether it actually is disrespectful, and I'm not weighing in on that. However, as a point of conversational order, if someone states that something is disrespectful, it's better if they say who they think is being disrespected. Otherwise, the statement is so vague and ill-defined it's hard to know whether to agree or disagree. In other words, if you don't know what is actually meant, how can you challenge it specifically? The only way I know is to guess at all the possible meanings, then address all of them case by case, which seems a little silly.