[Zakeet]

He was a bad announcer for offending those poor sensitive jocks ...

[P.O.E.]

They are really going out of their way to find racism, aren’t they.

We are being bamboozled big time.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Good grief.

[cba123]

What?

Cotton-picking is a racist term?

What? We are losing our collective minds.

Good grief.

[Neoliberalnot]

The official way to bully whitey by the low IQ crowd.

[goldstategop]

Its racissst to say a black guy picked cotton.

That’s right up there with saying he loved to eat watermelon.

Anything is a racially insensitive trigger - it just depends on the context.

[Zakeet]

Update: Russell Westbrook on comment by Thunder announcer: 'What he said wasn't OK ... we just have to move on'

[LydiaLong]

Is ‘Pea picking’ out as well?

[Pravious]

Remember when offending some idiot snowflake wasn’t a punishable offense in America?

[bk1000]

They are just nit picking now.

[CGASMIA68]

Its a “figure of speech” and these PC morons don’t see that.

[Alas Babylon!]

Man, this guy is getting so gyped! I mean he was sold down the river!

He may be trailer trash but the suspension is really off the reservation!

The whole NBA is a Chinese fire drill.

[shalom aleichem]

The phase became popular with Tennessee Ernie Ford’s TV show. He also liked to say bless your pea pickin heart.

https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-269153.html

All harmless until the easily offended SJWs showed up

[CincyRichieRich]

It’s an entertainment product which I have a choice, like the NFL...I am not buying.

[TN4Liberty]

He could have said fn mind and only the FCC would have cared. What has become of our society?

[Moonman62]

The play-by-play announcer said Westbrook was ‘out of his cotton-picking mind’

...

The dictionary recognizes it as a non-racial phrase used for emphasis.

[sphinx]

Idiocy.

[I want the USA back]

“THE.” I just said a racist word. Yes, “the” is racist because it’s about White Privilege and how evil White Males are, and how they are racist. So now you can’t say “the” any more.

What word is next?

[broken_arrow1]

He was blackballed....Oh, my God, I used the word black! I didn’t mean to be racially insensitive; oh, there I go again..I didn’t mean to use the term racial.

[efs111]

I happened to be an American who is black and I use that phrase quite a bit. Does that mean I’m racist against myself?

[2nd Amendment]

At least his name wasn’t Robert Lee!