I recently saw a whole article on medium insisting that no one should ever use the phrase "Low-hanging Fruit" because it refers to lynched black people. This can't possibly be true, as the song "Strange Fruit" was not written until a half century after the first recorded use of the phrase "low hanging fruit".

https://medium.com/afrosapiophile/do-your-colleagues-use-the-phrase-low-hanging-fruit-f8d1e7f8ae3b

The crazy thing is that the author, who is black, admits that she was never bothered by the phrase until someone informed her of the "historical" connection between the two phrase--a connection which cannot possibly exist.