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Old 11-04-2018, 08:36 AM
 
Location: deafened by howls of 'racism!!!'
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I had no idea this was a forbidden term now.

Agriculture Sec. Sonny Perdue: Florida governor's race 'so cotton-pickin' important'
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/11/04/p...tis/index.html
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Old 11-04-2018, 08:38 AM
 
Location: A Nation Possessed
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Oh for God's sake! When will it be enough for these people? When will the war on the English language STOP?
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Old 11-04-2018, 08:40 AM
 
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Oh for God's sake! When will it be enough for these people? When will the war on the English language STOP?

Perhaps when the English speaking educate themselves.
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Old 11-04-2018, 08:41 AM
 
Location: Florida
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It is an odd place to put that adjective--awkward--it doesn't belong. "Cotton-pickin important" is very odd term. I've actually never heard anyone use that adjective.

Kind of like Desantis with "monkey it up."

They are odd terms that most people do not use, but that these guys went out of their way to use.
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Old 11-04-2018, 08:41 AM
 
Location: A Nation Possessed
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Perhaps when the English speaking educate themselves.
On what? Vernacular English? Until I see you writing here in proper Queen's English, your statement doesn't carry any water.


Get it, "carry water"???? Hmmm, "carry water"? It's called slang. Perhaps you've heard of it. I'd say about half our spoken language is slang or came from slang. Oh my GOD!!!! Is "carry water" forbidden now as well?
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Old 11-04-2018, 08:42 AM
 
Location: Berwick, Penna.
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Perhaps when the English speaking educate themselves.
It's not a matter of education, but of indoctrination; the Absolutely Politically Correct see any idiom which doesn't fit their definition of "sensitivity" as an attempt to turn back the clock. It's a scene out of 1984

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When Trump Reps STOP being the Racist & Bigot party. I.E. Never.
Same old one-line answer, peddled by the same self-appointed elite, to the same simple mindset.

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Old 11-04-2018, 08:44 AM
 
Location: Florida
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It's not a matter of education, but of indoctrination,
And grammar.
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Old 11-04-2018, 08:46 AM
 
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everything is offensive now....stop making yourselves look like pathetic victims about everything...that is not empowering
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Old 11-04-2018, 08:46 AM
 
Location: Pacific NW
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Oh for God's sake! When will it be enough for these people? When will the war on the English language STOP?
Never. SJW liberals will ALWAYS find something to be outraged about, they've got a taste of power though online bullying and will never stop.
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Old 11-04-2018, 08:47 AM
 
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A couple of my now dead older relatives helped pick cotton. It was a hard but honest job. There is nothing wrong with that term.
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