"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."
"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."
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.