Anonymous #3 15h

I don’t think she meant to be racist, but it would be a good idea to apologize anyway. She has not

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Anonymous #4 15h

To be fair I’ve not heard of it and I’m from Texas But Texas isn’t Deep South

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Anonymous #3 15h

You’re right! Texas isn’t the South. It’s Texas so yeah you didn’t grow up hearing it.

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Anonymous #3 15h

And it does seem to be a thing that people say, even if it was (obviously) racist in origin it’s just something people say now ig

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Anonymous #4 15h

Since you’re so much smarter & are referring to people as dumb northerners could you please explain where the saying originated from & why it’s not rotted in racism. Thank you.

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Anonymous #4 15h

I’ve lived in North Carolina my whole life…

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Anonymous #5 15h

It does take the tiniest bit of introspection to say, "Get your cotton picking hands off that test key..." and then stop and think, "Now who among my students would be picking cotton?" And then stop using the expression And Republicans don’t have any introspection, so that explains it.

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Anonymous #3 15h

Exactly

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Anonymous #4 15h

Yeah and “cotton-picking hands” refers to how you have to be “grabby” to pick cotton Meaning like “taking something that doesn’t belong to you” -> which in turn is also probably racist in origin

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Anonymous #3 15h

Why do you say that “taking someontbing that doesn’t belong to you” means it has to be racist in origin?

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Anonymous #6 15h

Just feels like you apologize for using it and then move on instead of doubling down

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Anonymous #3 15h

I don’t think Kiggans meant any harm, but sometimes in life you gotta just apologize and move forward. I remember an NBA commentator got in hot water for saying that as well

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Anonymous #4 15h

Because they thought that black people would always be stealing stuff…? Similar to Colored People time CP time (don’t abbreviate CP don’t doooo it)

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Anonymous #4 15h

Bugs Bunny legit had racist cartoons in the 40’s & 50’s due to the way black people were depicted

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Anonymous #3 15h

Why not, I like talking about Chris Paul

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Anonymous #3 15h

Weird asf that you hear “stealing” and immediately think of black people. You sound like that racist

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Anonymous OP 14h

Anyways I agree that it’s probably not intended to be racist. But it seems quite obvious that it has racist roots, does it not?

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Anonymous #2 14h

(this was a joke, I know why not to abbreviate that)

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Anonymous #4 14h

I only think that when it’s what inspired “cotton-picking hands”. As a term to mean getting your hands on stuff that’s not yours. Not every stealing metaphor is a racist inference…

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