I recently saw a whole article on medium insisting that no one should ever use the phrase "Low-hanging Fruit" because it refers to lynched black people. This can't possibly be true, as the song "Strange Fruit" was not written until a half century after the first recorded use of the phrase "low hanging fruit".
I recently saw a whole article on medium insisting that no one should ever use the phrase "Low-hanging Fruit" because it refers to lynched black people. This can't possibly be true, as the song "Strange Fruit" was not written until a half century after the first recorded use of the phrase "low hanging fruit".
The crazy thing is that the author, who is black, admits that she was never bothered by the phrase until someone informed her of the "historical" connection between the two phrase--a connection which cannot possibly exist.
"I recently saw a whole article on medium insisting that no one should ever use the phrase "Low-hanging Fruit" because it refers to lynched black people."
One of the first articles I ever read on Medium was a list of words and phrases with a "gnarly racist history" including "Hip Hip Hooray" and "grandfather."
'Low-hanging fruit' has *always* referred to easy-to-accomplish tasks and dates back to 17th century England, a time period known for its brutality but not, to my knowledge, lynching black people:
Some wokeiac on Medium made a spurious connection between the phrase and the Billie Holliday song. Which is the sort of dumbass writing you lampooned awhile back with an article calling out wokies trying to find racism in everything.
I recently saw a whole article on medium insisting that no one should ever use the phrase "Low-hanging Fruit" because it refers to lynched black people. This can't possibly be true, as the song "Strange Fruit" was not written until a half century after the first recorded use of the phrase "low hanging fruit".
https://medium.com/afrosapiophile/do-your-colleagues-use-the-phrase-low-hanging-fruit-f8d1e7f8ae3b
The crazy thing is that the author, who is black, admits that she was never bothered by the phrase until someone informed her of the "historical" connection between the two phrase--a connection which cannot possibly exist.
"I recently saw a whole article on medium insisting that no one should ever use the phrase "Low-hanging Fruit" because it refers to lynched black people."
One of the first articles I ever read on Medium was a list of words and phrases with a "gnarly racist history" including "Hip Hip Hooray" and "grandfather."
'Low-hanging fruit' has *always* referred to easy-to-accomplish tasks and dates back to 17th century England, a time period known for its brutality but not, to my knowledge, lynching black people:
https://digitalcultures.net/slang/low-hanging-fruit/
Some wokeiac on Medium made a spurious connection between the phrase and the Billie Holliday song. Which is the sort of dumbass writing you lampooned awhile back with an article calling out wokies trying to find racism in everything.
People gotta stop believing everything they see on Da Internetz.