Again, I'm not saying there aren't people capitalizing on this, I am saying that the joke isn't inherently harmless even if there was no intent to harm, it's like calling a black adult male character "boy" cause his brothers are Roy and Troy
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"wait one cotton-picking minute!" has the meaning it does because a minute picking cotton is a long fucking minute
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There's been a lot of debate over whether "cotton-picking" as a general adjective meaning "bad" or "unpleasant" is itself a racial slur ("cotton-picker" referring to a person obviously is)
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Yeah, whereas if I’m talking farming and I think “till the fields” I think of a dude driving a tractor, because it’s what my neighbors did and what I helped with as my first (technically illegal child labor) job (raking after the tractor)
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Which in Midwestern corn and potato farming (especially potato) has developed some association with undocumented immigrant labor, although I’m not aware of any associated slurs
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