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The phrase "hard worker"? Yeah, it's now racist.

MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry claims the phrase "hard worker" should be reserved to those who work in the fields.

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; so I feel you that he's a hard worker... but in the context of relative privilege.

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