Ooo, I'm tellin', you smellin', like a water melon...
Oops, that's racist too.
I shall be awaiting my re-ned-ucation followed by my destitute life in the gutter. Flog me!
Posted on 06/24/2018 3:23:45 PM PDT by fhayek
It’s just a saying...
Chill.
Of course.
This reminds me of how censors apparently wanted “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” at the end of “Gone With The Wind” to be changed to “darn”.
And we can’t eat Mexican food now, either. I have never seen them this unglued.
Uh oh, this poor guy needs some work on his filter. Now he’ll have to be fired and abase himself in hopes of being rehabilitated in a few years.
I STILL use that expression without even a thought of racism behind it. Come to MY FACE and talk to me about it. This has got to stop. You do not rule over my speech, my thoughts or my life. Bring it, give it your best shot.
I had no idea "out of your cotton-picking mind" was a slur.
I've heard it and used it myself.
Never once considered it "racist".
My Irish ancestors dug canals by hand in upstate NY in the 1830s and 1840s when they first got here. I guess you could have called them ditch diggers. I don’t take offense when someone mentions “ditch diggers”
It’s an expression! The left uses things with no racial content to “prove” we are all racist.
Hate crime laws were created to criminalize anything a White says or does or doesn’t say or doesn’t do.
“It’s just a saying” when its “innocently” used by the Left.Who have developed a very useful hypersensitivity and are attuned to hearing the dog whistle code words everywhere.They will pounce on then whenever and wherever they theoretically find them. Remember the Black Gongresscritter who years ago made a big deal out of someone using the word “niggardly” to mean stingy (which it does) because it sounded like “the N word”?
It’s not a “racist” remark, it’s a “Southern” expression.
I grew up in the 40’s and 50’s, in Georgia. The area where I lived was inundated with Cotton Fields. I never saw a single, black, person picking any of that cotton.
The pickers I remember were all white, and as I got older, I picked cotton to earn a little extra spending money.
When I was stationed in Maine, a bunch of us GI’s would work part time harvesting potatoes (”badaddas”), again, for extra money.
The operative color here, was GREEN, not Black...even back in slavery days.
There’s not a lot of black folks who even know what a cotton boll feels like, or recognizes the smell of boll weevil poison on a warm, summer night.
So, STFU already. Find something that actually MATTERS to get pissed about.
If anyone’s out of their “cotton pickin” mind it’s Mad Maxine Waters.
The phrase used to be commonly used without any intent of association with any particular race.
It can come as as little surprise that the term ‘cotton-picking’ originated in the southern states of the USA, where it is usually pronounced cotton-pickin’. It began life in the late 1700s and differs from the 19th century Dixie term, ‘cottonpicker’, in that the latter was derogatory and racist, whereas ‘cotton-picking’ referred directly to the difficulty and harshness of gathering the crop.
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/cotton-picking.html
Absurd.
Mention or symbol of cotton is triggering.
About a year ago, a black employee of Yale University smashed some windows in an old building at Yale, which depicted slaves picking cotton. Nothing happened to him.
The left is becoming more unhinged and more of a danger to all.of us as time goes on.
A member of the perpetually outraged Leftist Regressive Deep State Ruling Class Elitist d-bag class. Blacks will call each other N****r all day in conversation and in rap “music,” and then racialize trivial, time worn phrases. A lot of Caucasians picked cotton, too, and as a Southerner, I often use colloquialisms such as cotton-pickin’ and pea-pickin’ Untwist your panties, bud.
Ooo, I'm tellin', you smellin', like a water melon...
Oops, that's racist too.
I shall be awaiting my re-ned-ucation followed by my destitute life in the gutter. Flog me!
I have heard an increasing number of people say
We Should Have Picked Our Own Damn Cotton
and presume that they will be viewed as insensitive as well.
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