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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] “let’s call a spade a spade” is an outdated saying with racist origins [/quote] It's an outdated statement that's had racist overtones for the last century but its origins actually had nothing to do with race or racism -- it was a permutation of the ancient Greek saying "to call a fig a fig and a trough a trough" (probably intended as double entendres). "Trough" was translated to "spade" (synonym for shovel) in the 16th century -- a term that didn't become a racist eipthet until the 1920's. Indeed, WEB duBois actually used the phrase (uncritically) in an editorial he wrote in 1919. The phrase probably shouldn't be used nowadays given the racist overtones now associated with that word, but it's interesting to note it wasn't actually brought into being as a racist phrase, and was used by many (including Oscar Wilde) without racist intent. [/quote] Thank you! Interesting![/quote]
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