Posted on 11/03/2015 7:29:28 AM PST by rktman
If you didn’t know, MSNBC’s wacky weekend host Melissa Harris-Perry recently chastised a guest on her show for using the term “hard worker.†On using the “offensive†term, she whined:
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.
As he’s been known to do in the past, CNN’s host of Somebody’s Gotta Do It , Mike Rowe, took to his website to set the hyper-sensitive Harris-Perry straight on the meaning of the term “hard worker†and the difference between it and slavery. After noting “there is no longer a limit to what people can be offended by,†Rowe writes:
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Everyone who has actually done hard work knows what it feels like when you’ve accomplished something tangible.
Which is why bimbo shrew Melissa Harris-Perry is clueless on the subject, and it makes her uncomfortable.
Mike Rowe is awesome. There’s another side to this, though... as she admitted, she needs to be reminded what hard work actually looks like. It’s an admission that the “privileged” class of talking head celebrities know they don’t work for their pay.
Not working, drug dealing, and indiscriminant procreating is “payback” for “your ancestors” having to pick cotton, is that it Melissa? Just hope the Hispanics don’t follow thelr “black brothers and sisters.”
Ironically the guest Alfonso Aguilar was a pro-amnesty Hispanic Republican trying to make the case for Hispanics immigrants (and illegals) being ‘hard working’
And MHP slaps him down for insulting blacks by using that term.
It’s always especially stunning to academic and urban types, incapable of the simplest tasks such as changing the hardware in a toilet tank, fixing a flat tire, etc. that someone who has occasional grit under their finger nails is at the same time their intellectual equal or superior. Mike Rowe has made a career tackling tough and nasty jobs on camera for laughs, but more importantly to convey to types like Ms. Perry what the underpinnings of her pampered existence look like and on whom it depends. But when he takes pen to paper (or thumbs to keypad) he demonstrates an intellect which in comparison makes Ms. Perry look like a butt scratching moron.
I took the time to read Mike Rowe’s answer and came away thinking that he had spent a lot of time and skull sweat thinking this through. This was not an off the cuff answer but one that he obviously has been pondering for a long time and which he is very invested in.
She should only talk about the things she really understands, but that would limit her conversation dramatically to grunts and moans, with the occasional griping thrown in.
Didn’t Glenn Beck once say that we had to take her seriously?
My part of the use of the phrase “working hard” to do whatever is that most of the time it is used to describe “doing your job.”
Everyone works hard. At least I would like to think they work hard at what they are paid to do.
When I hear that from someone I usually ask what they mean by that, in order to get a sense how much “extra” effort is being put in.
Politicians is one of those groups where I wonder how one works “hard” doing it?
Car Mechanic? Sure, there is some physically hard work there. Computer programmer? There is certainly some mental juggling that has to happen there. That can be hard work.
It is a phrase that has seeped into the vernacular. It doesn’t mean what it used to me.
Mike Rowe is DA MAN.
She has never done hard work. She has never built anything, repaired anything, produced anything ... there's nothing even remotely tangible that she can point to and say "I made that". I doubt she has any clue how offensive and wrong 0bama's "you didn't build that ... somebody else made that happen" comment is ... because she didn't build that; she didn't make that happen. And she never will.
When I work I hard, I think of the analogy “I dug a hole today, on my own and that is my work product”.
When she gets fired you can bet she will file a discrimination lawsuit.
When I work hard, I think of the saying "the harder the work, the luckier I get."
Very few, if any, today have a clue how hard free people of this land had to work to build something we call a Nation. And now we have a government with leaders that wouldn’t know hard work if it bit them on the butt destroying what those free people built. And while Mike Rowe found tough jobs to do in current times, it pales in comparison to the level of hard work that men and women performed in the past.
What in the world is she doing in that picture?
Is that a PhotoShop?
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