A fake thug meets a couple of real thugs!

[OverVolt]

Well, that's damn great for you. You must reach the same relatively vast audience that Cavuto and O'Reilly reach. I could barely care less about what you call gun toting idiots. Because your calling them thugs repeatedly means that obviously means that commentators like O'Reilly follow your example.

If you believe that I have even less reason to pay attention to the drivel that spills out of your (let's just be generous and call it a) mind.


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wat

You're going on the "has lost his mind" list.

 

[Ichinisan]

Well, that's damn great for you. You must reach the same relatively vast audience that Cavuto and O'Reilly reach. I could barely care less about what you call gun toting idiots. Because your calling them thugs repeatedly means that obviously means that commentators like O'Reilly follow your example.

If you believe that I have even less reason to pay attention to the drivel that spills out of your (let's just be generous and call it a) mind.


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I'd say it's actually quite likely that O'Reilly and many FNC personalities refered to the biker brawlers as "thugs." Your automatic assumption that they did not says a lot about you.

 

[blankslate]

wat

You're going on the "has lost his mind" list.

good then I won't have to listen to mindless crap directed at me from you.

I'd say it's actually quite likely that O'Reilly and many FNC personalities refered to the biker brawlers as "thugs." Your automatic assumption that they did not says a lot about you.

Like I said, it's a hypothesis I heard bandied about. So yeah maybe they did. Or maybe they didn't do it as often as they did for others. Who Knows? I avoid opinion shows on cable channels anyways so I'm not gonna be testing it. You're assumptions about my beliefs D.I.L.L.A.F.F.


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[Ichinisan]

good then I won't have to listen to mindless crap directed at me from you.



Like I said, it's a hypothesis I heard bandied about. So yeah maybe they did. Or maybe they didn't do it as often as they did for others. Who Knows? I avoid opinion shows on cable channels anyways so I'm not gonna be testing it. You're assumptions about my beliefs D.I.L.L.A.F.F.


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It starts as a hypothesis, then people start to use confirmation bias and then we have another banned word. Just stop doing it in the first place. Nobody needs your "hypothesis."

Just because a sub-culture of black people publicly adopt the word "thug" to describe a lifestyle they've embraced (which appropriately conveys the intended meaning of the word), some people are saying we should no longer use the word "thug" to describe thugs -- especially when describing black thugs that embraced the word.

That reasoning does not make sense. That same mentality is why there's no universally correct / politically correct word for a black man visiting the United States from another country. If you can't call him "black," what can you call him? Multiple words before "black" are now un-cool and now that ones is also on the way out.

So, in the name of racial sensitivity, lets start doing that for thug/criminal/brute/ruffian/savage/hooligan. How long before we run out of synonyms?

 

[CZroe]

good then I won't have to listen to mindless crap directed at me from you.



Like I said, it's a hypothesis I heard bandied about. So yeah maybe they did. Or maybe they didn't do it as often as they did for others. Who Knows? I avoid opinion shows on cable channels anyways so I'm not gonna be testing it. You're assumptions about my beliefs D.I.L.L.A.F.F.


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The fact that you are so mindlessly willing to join a bandwagon based on what others "bandied about" says a lot about how these bandwagons form.

 

[Mai72]

Where do these people get their nice clothes?

You know they don't hold down good paying jobs, yet they sport nice clothes, kicks and iphones.

 

[Raduque]

Where do these people get their nice clothes?

You know they don't hold down good paying jobs, yet they sport nice clothes, kicks and iphones.

Theft.

 

[Perknose]

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.

^^^ THIS, folks. Sadly, there are those among us who, since they can no longer use 'N' word publicly, now, with definite racist intent, employ the word "thug" to specifically describe blacks behaving badly.

And since we have neither the time nor the resources to determine if any one poster describing black people behaving badly as "thugs" is doing so innocently or with racist intent, we have decided not to allow any poster to do so.

This is settled moderator policy. Please note that complaining about such in OT is an infractionable offense.. Consider this your one fair warning.

Perknose
Forum Director