Reply #38: Code Words

[hermitcrab]

I think you have your racist radio receiver tuned a bit too fine. "Spade Work" is a common enought term, especially for older people who remember what physical work is (i.e. not typing on a computer). If she had said "heavy lifting" you would find that to be horribly racist too, I bet. I can remember when race baiting involved words like "welfare queens" or "Willie Horton" (or worse) and you didn't have to divine tea leaves to find it. It was pretty obvious.