A fake thug meets a couple of real thugs!

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mrjminer

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Thug refers to a type of person not skin color. Aaron Hernandez is clearly a thug, for instance.

Yea, that guy is definitely a thug. From recent news, I gather he's adapting to prison thug life well
 

AMCRambler

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Yeah keep acting like there aren't absolutely people that do that. We had people on here doing that (like after the mods cracked down on people using "savages").

Seriously you want to use arguments like this look up the history of the word ******, because according to your logic it can't be racist either. Hell using your logic no words could ever mean anything other than their origin.

Next up you'll claim that people using "ninja" as a replacement for that isn't that at all because of ninja's origins and typical use.

And that's why you people suck donkey dick at understanding this stuff as it's all about intent. Is everyone using thug doing it with racist intent? Of course not, but you're just plain delusional if you don't think there are people doing exactly that.

Tired of this word police bullshit. You think by legislating someone's speech you're stopping their racism. You can't. Thug is perfectly valid word for these scum bags. White, brown, black or red. I would also use to describe those biker shit heads in Texas. Thugs, every last one of them. Stop trampling my freedom of speech.
 

brianmanahan

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the term thug is derived from the thuggees of india, who were a group of professional assassins
 

Ichinisan

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Yeah keep acting like there aren't absolutely people that do that. We had people on here doing that (like after the mods cracked down on people using "savages").

Seriously you want to use arguments like this look up the history of the word ******, because according to your logic it can't be racist either. Hell using your logic no words could ever mean anything other than their origin.

Next up you'll claim that people using "ninja" as a replacement for that isn't that at all because of ninja's origins and typical use.

And that's why you people suck donkey dick at understanding this stuff as it's all about intent. Is everyone using thug doing it with racist intent? Of course not, but you're just plain delusional if you don't think there are people doing exactly that.
You act like there aren't apologists going around looking for opportunities to brand words and people as "racist." They are the ones seeing race in situations where other people see behavior. Because some particular instances of savage behavior or thuggish behavior were perpetrated by people of a particular minority race, that's the only thing these "racism" accusers see. If you start to think describing behaviors gets conflated with race, then check yourself.

That mentality is why there's currently no universally unoffensive/correct way to refer to the race of a black person in the United States...and it's silly.
 
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Ichinisan

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Tired of this word police bullshit. You think by legislating someone's speech you're stopping their racism. You can't. Thug is perfectly valid word for these scum bags. White, brown, black or red. I would also use to describe those biker shit heads in Texas. Thugs, every last one of them. Stop trampling my freedom of speech.

This. X1,000
 

Ichinisan

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douche said:
Hi! My name is douche. I enjoy hiking, swimming, and asserting myself as more racially-sensitive than my peers by continually re-defining words wherever I start to see racial associations.

By the way, ____ is not the preferred nomenclature. Please use ____ for the next 5 years...until I declare that to be racist also.

Wheeeee! I've made the world a better place to live!

Good job, douche. Good job.
 

purbeast0

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calling a thug a thug is now racist on ATOT.

there are so many stupid fucking idiots on this forum.
 

1sikbITCH

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Is "pauldun170" the new keyword for "imbecile?" :rolleyes:




In other words: "Thuggery."


Reading too much into it. That kind of brutality is thuggery. Period.

YOU are the one who is trying to redefine the word. Equating "thug" with "black" when other people use it makes YOU the "racist" one. :colbert:

You are too late to stop this. "Thug" is the new "savage" on ATOT. When they ban "thug" it'll just switch to something else.
 

SSSnail

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Only blowhard idiots would start associating common words to a specific skin color. Who's the racist now? Thugs come from all races your freaking mouth breathing morons.
 

dighn

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Only blowhard idiots would start associating common words to a specific skin color. Who's the racist now? Thugs come from all races your freaking mouth breathing morons.

i breath through my mouth due to allergies and find your post offensive :colbert:
 

kage69

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I'm starting to feel confused about the actual fisticuffs in videos like these. People getting laid out so thoroughly after the rather lengthy telegraphing and threatening postures that seems to be popular these days.

Still, in the end, even though the pathetic actor there is guilty of picking the wrong role on the wrong stage at the wrong time, from what was on that video let's keep in mind the violence emanated from only one party there; the real assholes of the clip. Kicking someone in the head when they are down is nothing to sneeze at folks.

Foolishness shouldn't be answered with an asskicking. You break out Reason and Persuasion *holds up fists*, you better have a good reason. If I was black I'd like to think I'd take pains not to re enforce racial stereotypes during a time when it only serves to justify the position of the crooked cops we see in the news. What a bunch of fucking idiots, please go do everyone a favor and piss off a K9 unit guys.
 
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blankslate

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Uhh, thug refers to the short term of Thuggee from India back in the early 1300's to 1800's where a large cultish group of murders, thieves, extortionists, assassins, and the worst sort of criminals formed an organization to control parts of SE Asia at that time.


All the above is true.
Words also evolve quite rapidly in some languages depending on how people use them.

It is also true that certain people who, some believe would have a prejudiced view of black men, seem to use thug to describe black criminals with a relish that is absent from their comparatively rare use of the same word to describe white criminals.

For example it would be interesting to start to test the hypothesis by counting how many times that word was used too refer to the white motorcycle gang members who got into a gun battle in Texas compared to the recent uses of the word to describe anyone from protestors to vandals to people who shoot cops who aren't white.




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