Sean Hannity ends his interview w/Trump by thanking nonexistent pharmaceutical company Eli Whitney

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What a shitshow.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. So the cotton gin can cure COVID? Who knew?

[Totally Tunsie]

2. Didn't he invent the cotton gin?

[TheBlackAdder]

3. Yep. And that helped to build the Antebellum South's economy and furthered slavery.

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Message delivered, and received.

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[Ex Lurker]

5. So now Eli Whitney's a bad guy?

This is why we get laughed at.

[TheBlackAdder]

10. It depends on the context his name was being used, and with Hannity, it's not for the better.

[ZZenith]

7. Last time I stumbled upon Hannity

he sounded like he was completely soaked in gin, so maybe it’s just a Freudian slip.

Or, could be a message - I put nothing past the creature.

[Celerity]

8. Eli Whitney wasn't a slaver, & his interchangeable parts advocacy helped the Union win the Civil War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Whitney

Whitney is most famous for two innovations which came to have significant impacts on the United States in the mid-19th century: the cotton gin (1793) and his advocacy of interchangeable parts. In the South, the cotton gin revolutionized the way cotton was harvested and reinvigorated slavery. Conversely, in the North the adoption of interchangeable parts revolutionized the manufacturing industry, contributing greatly to the U.S. victory in the Civil War.

[The Magistrate]

11. Exactly, Ma'am

It is only mild exaggeration to say the man caused the Civil War, and ended it in favor of the Union, by the action of his two great innovations.

[Norbert]

12. Cotton gin and tonic is extremely dry.

[MurrayDelph]

4. They're the company

that provides the cotton in pill bottle.

[cwydro]

9. Well played.

[eleny]

6. The U.S.S. Trump

[PCIntern]

13. You know what Eli Whitney said...

“Get your cotton-picking hands off my gin.”

And thus the invention came to pass!

[Buckeyeblue]

14. My grandpa used to use the phrase "cotton-picking"...I haven't heard that used in years.

[eppur_se_muova]

15. I'm pretty sure it was originally directed at Blacks, so it's good you haven't heard it.

We grew up with that expression in the South, and didn't realize what it meant until we were adults.

[Buckeyeblue]

17. Right. He grew up in West Virginia.

It's interesting how as a kid I had no idea of the racist connotation of the phrase. It was just something funny he would say, always in a joking manner (which meant he was in a good mood and was a great deal of fun to be around). As an adult you start putting two and two together. And it's easy to see how biasis get passed along...especially the unconscious kind.

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18. I think it was pretty common everywhere. Folks used that term and we lived in northern

lower Michigan. Seriously, I didn't meet a Black person until I went to college so it must've migrated north---just like the morans who fly the Confederate battle flag. You're probably right about the origin of the phrase, though.

[tblue37]

16. Maybe drinking too much uh, cotton gin. Yeah, that's the ticket.