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How it's worded? There are two possible choices, either she meant it as a reference to slavery or she didn't. How is that being tricky or disingenuous?
I'm just asking, whichever you believe in, if you had an opportunity to win a million dollars, which option would you pick?
I'm just curious about the people here claiming that we don't really know what she meant, how strongly you actually believe that.
Dude, you're kinda new here.
Let me clue you in.
Many of the people on here will give you a million excuses rather than answer a simple question.
You can try to rephrase the question a hundred times and it will still never be good enough for an honest answer.
Let me assure you. The problem is NOT in the wording of your question.
How it's worded? There are two possible choices, either she meant it as a reference to slavery or she didn't. How is that being tricky or disingenuous?
I'm just asking, whichever you believe in, if you had an opportunity to win a million dollars, which option would you pick?
I'm just curious about the people here claiming that we don't really know what she meant, how strongly you actually believe that.
The problem with your hypothetical is its relies on game theory and other factors. Any number of times I've seen people talk themselves out of the correct answer for various reasons. I've seen myself do it on tests or exams because of how a question was worded.
So you squirm out of answering the question because it makes you uncomfortable and put up revisions (made up at that) to support your evasion. Figures.
My mother was an indentured, and picked cotton in Southeast Georgia. Her only dress was made from a Potato sack. Exactly how would a slave be offended if my mom was called a hard worker.
Words being evil is preposterous, the context words are used in can completely change their meaning. Truth is often unpleasant, changing it is evil.
PC is stupid, nothing political is correct. Wanting to believe something, because you want to believe it, seems noble but usually leads to poor results.
I think her implications are obvious, but I think it went right over many people's heads.
I suppose if the picture in her office was "folks" working in strawberry or tomato fields so many wouldn't have leapt to the conclusion she was talking about slavery.
I think she was talking about "folks" who actually do back breaking work everyday of their lives.
No one physically picks cotton in the modern world, not since the first mechanical machines in the late 1940s were introduced. Even the earliest versions replaced 40 manual laborers. So she really needs the way-back machine to look to cotton picking as her example, since Melissa is not old enough to have actually seen it for herself.
Harvesting tomatoes by hand might be a little more recent, since manual laborers ended in the 1980 with the introduction of machines, which today can harvest up to 40 tons per hour.
Strawberry picking on the other hand, still seems to need that gentle touch, but automated machines are now being designed and used.
Who named msnbc keeper of the language and culture.
Hard worker must also be a smart worker or you lose efficiency.
Slaves????????? So now the left has plucked another phrase to use to convince the bewildered and confused they are victims????? hey, don't worry, the 'we have to pass it to see what's in it' crowd that cheered will fall for anything their democratic masters tell them.
MSNBC leans so far forward that it can self-fellate.
Well I for one come from a family who believes in hard work, over lazy azz bums any day. This makes us look bad, then so be it frig. Right is wrong these days, and wrong right. Something very wrong with that picture.
I do not see Hard Work, as an insult to anyone except for those who don't believe in working period then maybe.
Sick of this political correctness a bunch of crap period.
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"Hard Worker" is Insult To Slaves
