A coworker just quoted this one chick's blog to me, apparently she leads off with "Let's call a spade a spade: Hardcore has always meant 'dick'."
Putting aside the fact that that is incorrect, I told my coworker he should leave a comment on her blog calling her a racist, as "spade" has been used in the past as a slur against black people. While the phrase "Let's call a spade a spade" pre-dates the word's use as an ethnic slur, these naïve little Social Justice Warriors would have us avoid using any words that could possibly offend someone's pwecious wittle feewings, so it's just funny to me that this woman would have such a spectacular lack of social awareness that she'd use such a phrase when leading off her PMSing rant about how evil men are.
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