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"The pot calling the kettle black" is a proverbial idiom that may be of Spanish origin, of which English versions began to appear in the first half of the 17th century. It means a situation in which somebody accuses someone else of a fault which the accuser shares, and therefore is an example of psychological projection , [ 1 ] or hypocrisy . [ 2 ]
The kettle may or may not be black, but attacking it for its blackness will only draw attention to your own blackness, which in turn undermines your position. It happens quite often on Wikipedia that an editor makes a post to remind others of civility but writes it in an uncivil tone.
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I agree. The kettle is clearly a shiny silver. Anyone got a black kettle? Grand master ka 23:35, 8 January 2007 (UTC) I found a decent photo of a cast iron kettle on Flickr and replaced the obviously non-black kettle. The pot though is still clearly stainless steel. There are plenty of images of black pots, but no good free ones that I could find.
Why did America tolerate shameful poverty and lynch Negroes?" [45] In 2011, author Michael Dobson wrote that the phrase was a form of the pot calling the kettle black, and a "famous example" of the tu quoque fallacy derived from a "famous 1960s era Russian joke." [9]
Pot Kettle Black may refer to: The phrase The pot calling the kettle black; A song on the Wilco album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot This page was last edited on 29 ...
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