Tennesseahawk
Veteran Expediter
After this Richard Sherman thing, where people called him 'thug' or worse, I read an article where someone said white people are using the word as to take the place of the n-word (I really hate using that term, but I'm trying to keep it clean here).
I've been using thug for probably 7 years or so, to describe gang-looking blacks who appear to be up to no good. IOW, those who threaten law-abiding folk with music, dress, mannerisms, speech, volume, attitude etc; and more often than not, a multiple of that list.
FYI, I also have a word I use for whites... thugs. I also use trash, scum, punk, and other words that fit at the time. People used to call people I described (not race-focused) troublemakers, or 'no good.'
But let's look at 'thug' at face value. The definition is a ruffian or hoodlum. Blacks use it to describe someone who's had a hard life, who will get what he wants by any means possible. Yeah, that sounds like a ruffian or hoodlum... ie, up to no good.
Now do you think that is taking place of the n-word? Is it a racist word, even after black youth end up defining it themselves? Will this mean that only blacks can call blacks thugs, just like the n-word? Will they feign being offended if a white guy calls them that? Is it something that only black youth can understand?
Are not the knockout punks thugs? What about the bored kids who shot a guy in the back? Are we supposed to treat this garbage with kid gloves, to the point that we are the bad guys if we use that word? To be honest, the media has really overused that word this week, in the Richard Sherman drama. They are going to burn it out for the rest of us, which they do a lot. Thug is not a word that is used lightly by me. It means something that is either vile, or has the potential to be vile. They've already *******ized the word, almost to the point where it's going to be stricken from our vocabularies.
I've been using thug for probably 7 years or so, to describe gang-looking blacks who appear to be up to no good. IOW, those who threaten law-abiding folk with music, dress, mannerisms, speech, volume, attitude etc; and more often than not, a multiple of that list.
FYI, I also have a word I use for whites... thugs. I also use trash, scum, punk, and other words that fit at the time. People used to call people I described (not race-focused) troublemakers, or 'no good.'
But let's look at 'thug' at face value. The definition is a ruffian or hoodlum. Blacks use it to describe someone who's had a hard life, who will get what he wants by any means possible. Yeah, that sounds like a ruffian or hoodlum... ie, up to no good.
Now do you think that is taking place of the n-word? Is it a racist word, even after black youth end up defining it themselves? Will this mean that only blacks can call blacks thugs, just like the n-word? Will they feign being offended if a white guy calls them that? Is it something that only black youth can understand?
Are not the knockout punks thugs? What about the bored kids who shot a guy in the back? Are we supposed to treat this garbage with kid gloves, to the point that we are the bad guys if we use that word? To be honest, the media has really overused that word this week, in the Richard Sherman drama. They are going to burn it out for the rest of us, which they do a lot. Thug is not a word that is used lightly by me. It means something that is either vile, or has the potential to be vile. They've already *******ized the word, almost to the point where it's going to be stricken from our vocabularies.
