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It’s in a snapshot from earlier today: https://archive.is/NR0Zj https://archive.is/NR0Zj > The term picnic is often associated with lynchings of Black people i
by bumbledraven 5y ago
It’s in a snapshot from earlier today: https://archive.is/NR0Zj https://archive.is/NR0Zj
> The term picnic is often associated with lynchings of Black people in the United States, during which white spectators were said to have watched while eating, referring to them as picnics or other terms involving racial slurs against Black people.
- mattbk1 5y agoSnopes disagrees, maybe why they removed it: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/picnic-origin/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/picnic-origin/
- hn_throwaway_99 5y agoThe "rule of thumb" etymology is also bullshit but it's still there: https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1998-04-17-1998107056-story.html https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1998-04-17-19981070...
- lallysingh 5y agoReading that, it wasn't established last, but I didn't find any other definition for that term in the article. I'm pretty groggy, did I miss it?
- hn_throwaway_99 5y agoFrom the link: The false etymology persists despite the Oxford English Dictionary definition: "A method or procedure derived entirely from practice or experience, without any basis in scientific knowledge; a roughly practical method." The OED dates the phrase's first reference to 1692. In the Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, "rule of thumb" is additionally defined as a method by which brewers once tested the temperature of a batch of beer: They dipped a thumb in the brew.