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It's just a figure of speech. What's so gravely offensive about it?
by cnst 6y ago
It's just a figure of speech. What's so gravely offensive about it?
- hiharryhere 6y ago“Modern slavery” isn’t a figure of speech. It has a specific meaning describing worker exploitation. For example the UK has the Modern Slavery Act - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Slavery_Act_2015 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Slavery_Act_2015
- refurb 6y agoContext matters, in this case location. It’s like joking about child prostitution in Cambodia. As an American it’s something that happens in far away lands (not entirely true, it happens in the US too). In Cambodia, it’s a very serious issue that really pisses of locals since it’s mostly Western tourists supporting it there. Joke about it in the US and it’s just frowned upon. Do it in Cambodian and you’ll piss people off enough to get yourself in trouble.
- rsynnott 6y agoI mean, it’s at least arguably an allegation of a crime. I wouldn’t be a fan of criminal libel still existing, but that’s a case where it might be appropriate for the hotel to take a civil libel case, assuming it’s unfounded.