re: #78 MattMinus

I realize this was intended as a dog whistle, but have heard southerners use that phrase before in completely non-racial contexts.
My northeastern jaw hit the floor, but it was explained, and they were just as shocked that I saw the term as offensive (in this context a problematic server was the “tar baby”).

Research shows that the story this phrase is taken from is actually a form of an African folk tale. While Lamborn knew exactly what he was doing, the history language as such is more complicated than folks are giving it credit for.

The original tar baby, of course, is from an African-American folk-tale, and I think it’s still used pretty commonly as figure of speech.

I’m not going to have a cow over this particular usage, either, but I’m…suspicious. Let’s just say suspicious.