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Fox should be ashamed to be a part of this ridiculousness.

"Cotton-picken" mind is an expression that is used indiscriminately....My G-d, has Fox also gone loco?

1 posted on 06/26/2018 8:50:28 AM PDT by yoe
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Oh, puhleeeeeez!!!!!!!!!


59 posted on 06/26/2018 9:09:04 AM PDT by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot accept.)
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Childish bullsh*t

“Cotton-pickin” is a common expression - used rather than profanity. It has no semblance to racism, except in the minds of those who wish it so - that would be your typical SWJ snowflake, or otherwise self-important mainstream media jackass.


63 posted on 06/26/2018 9:11:55 AM PDT by JME_FAN (uired to)
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FOX is always covering their a$$...It is not the same network it use to be..
The son’s running the show, are liberal, hateful Democrats with wives that are pulling their balls..JMO.


64 posted on 06/26/2018 9:12:23 AM PDT by haircutter
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Alas, it would have been just fine had he said “you’re out of your F*****g mind!”


65 posted on 06/26/2018 9:12:24 AM PDT by EDINVA
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Ridiculous. We’ve teased my brother and called him Cotton during most of his youth due to his cotton blonde hair. One of my old great uncles called him “water moccasin” as a nickname for the same reason. I suppose we’re racist? Not.


66 posted on 06/26/2018 9:12:35 AM PDT by Qwackertoo (Worst 8 years ever, First Affirmative Action President, I hope those who did this to us SUFFER MOST!)
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Wait, what? Is this real life?


69 posted on 06/26/2018 9:14:12 AM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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“Cotton-picken” mind is an expression that is used indiscriminately

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It’s in the dictionary and not labelled as racist, but that will probably change.


72 posted on 06/26/2018 9:16:36 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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Our good friends at Faux News sucking up to the left.


73 posted on 06/26/2018 9:17:02 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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While Bossie should know better in the age of PC, this is absurd. In fact his use of the common term with another guest of color is the exact opposite of racism. It’s a common, benign term. To direct it at only whites and not blacks would be race-based and racist in itself.


74 posted on 06/26/2018 9:18:25 AM PDT by ilgipper
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77 posted on 06/26/2018 9:20:00 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 trillion dollars.)
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By the way FR posters..this is off TOPIC...

BUT DOES ANY ONE KNOW, if Marie Harf’s, and the gay dude, (forgot his name), is their RADIO show a failure or success? Not a word about it and both of them are on shows, especially the fake blond...she truly spoils OUTNUMBERED for this household...

Fox pushed that Radio show and now NOTHING...shaking my head.

Just wondering...

83 posted on 06/26/2018 9:22:21 AM PDT by haircutter
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Dag nabbit.

What in tarnation!


87 posted on 06/26/2018 9:23:30 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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This is insane! And unfair! Why doesn't Fox give out a list of words one is not allowed to say.

I've used this phrase, and it is NOT racist, not offensive.

88 posted on 06/26/2018 9:25:07 AM PDT by apocalypto
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I am curious, crazy lefties seem to think only blacks picked cotton- which is far from the truth. They seem to also think the only task done by slaves was picking cotton which is why they are triggered by cotton. The thing is slaves did all sorts of work, even in agriculture there were many other crops, people didn’t eat cotton. Slaves had to do all sorts of work like cooking, cleaning, building things, you name it they did it so is all work going to become a trigger?

I am done with PC, I will say what I want when I want. When I was a kid old ladies especially were not hesitant to speak their mind about things, no matter who it offended. I used to wish I could just say whatever- well now is my time and I will be doing that.

For my first speaking my mind, I am tired of the whole slavery issue. There is no one alive today who legally owned a slave in the US. There is no one alive today who was legally held as a slave in the US. The truth is slavery is a horrible thing, but throughout history every race was held as slaves by people of other races and even people of their own race. We all have a history of being slaves if we go back far enough. The other truth is slavery continues to this day in this world- the funny thing is most are more concerned about black slavery that is in the past than slavery that is happening right now. Why is that?


90 posted on 06/26/2018 9:26:18 AM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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Paging the gutless wonders over at FNC....

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/cotton-picking.html


98 posted on 06/26/2018 9:31:52 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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Meanwhile, Shep, Whoraldo are walking around loose when they should be in straight jackets.


99 posted on 06/26/2018 9:33:23 AM PDT by Zathras
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Planet of the Apes and picking cotton - insensitive dog whistle slurs

F*** You - just a respectful expression of honest disagreement and heartfelt emotion


102 posted on 06/26/2018 9:35:11 AM PDT by Yaelle
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As a child, I would tell my brother he was out of his ‘ever-lovin-cotton-pickin mind.’

Anyway, it never occurred to me that it’s a racist phrase — probably because I never realized that only black people ever picked cotton.


103 posted on 06/26/2018 9:35:41 AM PDT by Heart of Georgia
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Good thing he didn’t ask if the guy had gone ape.


107 posted on 06/26/2018 9:37:22 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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Country Boy at Heart, co written by Albert Lee

I may look like a city slicker,
Shinin’ up through his shoes.
Underneath I’m just a cotton picker,
Pickin’ out a mess of blues

Show me where I start.
Find a horse and cart.
I’m just a country boy,
Country boy at heart.

I may look like a bank teller,
Pushing facts in a file.
But I’d rather be a haul collar,
Shooing foot home in style.

Show me where I start.
Find a horse and cart.
I’m just a country boy,
Country boy at heart.

Instrumental.

I may look like a city slicker,
Shinin’ up through his shoes.
Underneath I’m just a cotton picker,
Pickin’ out a mess of blues.

Show me where I start.
Find a horse and cart.
I’m just a country boy,
Country boy at heart.


108 posted on 06/26/2018 9:37:27 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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