That is supposedly because of the 1950s Billy Holliday song “Strange Fruit,” the lyrics to which do not include the term “low-hanging.” The actual reason is that no matter what you say to black supremacists, they think of how oppressed their ancestors were generations ago, and how they can exploit that oppression to bully white people.
Mae Hicks Jones is of course a Woman of Color, and thereby empowered to tell us which expressions we are allowed to use.
Hicks Jones has other demands:
Assuming we have any character left at all, eventually we will get tired of the incessant bullying that is political correctness.
https://moonbattery.com/low-hanging-fruit-deleted-from-newspeak-dictionary/
I was sure low hanging fruit was going to be a reference to the big black balls of African American men.
What a disappointing article.