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Fox News commentator apologizes for racist remark
CNN ^ | 6/18 | Brian Stelter

Posted on 06/24/2018 3:23:45 PM PDT by fhayek

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Oh brother. He is an "ex-Trump advisor" too. The left is out of their cotton picking minds...
1 posted on 06/24/2018 3:23:45 PM PDT by fhayek
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It’s just a saying...

Chill.


2 posted on 06/24/2018 3:24:53 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("Married with children.")
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Of course.


3 posted on 06/24/2018 3:26:08 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: fhayek

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”.


4 posted on 06/24/2018 3:27:30 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

And we can’t eat Mexican food now, either. I have never seen them this unglued.


5 posted on 06/24/2018 3:27:35 PM PDT by fhayek
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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.


6 posted on 06/24/2018 3:27:38 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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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.


7 posted on 06/24/2018 3:27:43 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
You learn something new every day.

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".

8 posted on 06/24/2018 3:29:09 PM PDT by boop ("I said give me the brandy!")
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To: fhayek

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”


9 posted on 06/24/2018 3:29:41 PM PDT by Az Joe (I AM TRUMP!)
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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.


10 posted on 06/24/2018 3:30:14 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism is the denial of human nature.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

“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”?


11 posted on 06/24/2018 3:30:21 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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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.


12 posted on 06/24/2018 3:30:25 PM PDT by FrankR ( Winners NEVER cheat, and Cheaters NEVER win.)
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If anyone’s out of their “cotton pickin” mind it’s Mad Maxine Waters.


13 posted on 06/24/2018 3:30:38 PM PDT by Az Joe (I AM TRUMP!)
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The phrase used to be commonly used without any intent of association with any particular race.


14 posted on 06/24/2018 3:31:02 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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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


15 posted on 06/24/2018 3:31:05 PM PDT by donna
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Absurd.


16 posted on 06/24/2018 3:31:16 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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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.


17 posted on 06/24/2018 3:31:51 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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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.


18 posted on 06/24/2018 3:32:18 PM PDT by nickedknack
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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!

19 posted on 06/24/2018 3:32:19 PM PDT by chris37 ("I am everybody." -Mark Robinson)
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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.


20 posted on 06/24/2018 3:33:04 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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