Its context here is business settings in America. So I was wrong I saying random person on the street, I should have said random American office worker.
Anyway, it’s rather satisfying that those against what they call “cancel” culture react to opinions they deem unpopular by downvoting, it shows they don’t care about the principal of what they call “cancel” culture in general but only care that what they are used to is being “cancelled”.
I’ll whole grant you that said in Japanese in Japan the phrase could be okay, I have no idea about that.
Has anyone tried googling the term to see what comes up? Many posts explaining or talking about why the term is problematic. People downvoting are trying to ignore facts they dislike, but that doesn’t make facts go away.
This even comes up https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23549563