The Latest Offensive Term: "Hard Worker"

Rich Noyes | October 26, 2015
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MSNBC weekend host Melissa Harris-Perry is so politically correct, she gets offended if someone uses a phrase like "hard worker." From the October 24 edition of her eponymous MSNBC show:

Alfonso Aguilar, Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles: “If there’s somebody who is a hard worker when he goes to Washington, it’s Paul Ryan....”
Host Melissa Harris-Perry: “I want us to be super careful when we use the language ‘hard worker,’ because I actually keep an image of folks working in cotton fields on my office wall, because it is a reminder about what hard work looks like. So, I feel you that he’s a hard worker, I do, but in the context of relative privilege.”

 

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