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.
For years I used the term “shylock” as a pejorative for greedy people while being ignorant of the connotations of using the characters name that way. I didn’t even know it was from a Shakespeare play.