Not Going to Have "Thugs"? Wha?

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Spot read a few of the posts here. Not surprised by some. Yes, it's been a code word of one political faction for a few years.
 
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lyansaine said:
Last post from me on this subject:

If a person says to you "Hey, that offends me" and you say "Too bad, I'm going to keep saying it anyway and also you're a ***** and anti-American for being offended" - you might not be a racist, but you're definitely a giant *******.
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It depends on what is said. I would agree on some things, but getting your panties in a wad over a word that had had no racial connotations throughout history is stupid at best.
 
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volholio said:
It's a legitimate debate. It was HUGE issue not even three months ago. I have a link to Richard Sherman talking about it.

I think it's a fair discussion. If you'd not like to join it, that's fine, but I think it's interesting. I'm interested in other opinions.
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Richard Sherman is another loud mouth who has a stage thru his career in the NFL. He is like Chad Johnson & Terrell Owens. He will crash and burn in a season or two.

If one looks up the word "Thug" in the dictionary, they will find that it refers to the way a person acts NOT their skin color.

In fact, Bonnie & Clyde were considered "Thugs" during the late 20's & early 30's.

Sherman thinks that if things don't go the right way, then it must be because of race.

Should he son or daughter not get accepted to the Washington State School for the Blind, it will say that it is because they are black and he will totally overlook the fact that they don't qualify for admitance to that school because they are not visually impaired....

He is an idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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Slydell said:
Spot read a few of the posts here. Not surprised by some. Yes, it's been a code word of one political faction for a few years.
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Maybe I am uninformed, but I have never thought BLACK MAN when I heard the word thug. What political faction uses it as a code word?
 
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orange_glory said:
Exactly, the Jews have been enslaved and oppressed more times through history than probably any other race. I don't see most of them using it as a crutch.
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Being Jew is not considered a race, it is considered a religion. There are white Jews and there black Jews from Ethopia, so being a Jew is not a race.....

Also, being a Jew is a CHOICE whereas being black or white is not a choice...
 
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My name is Jax_Vol....and I am a thug.


I make Marshall Henderson & Marshall Mathers look like Boy Scouts
 
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BearCat204 said:
Hugz not Thugz
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Rudy123 said:
Being Jew is not considered a race, it is considered a religion. There are white Jews and there black Jews from Ethopia, so being a Jew is not a race.....

Also, being a Jew is a CHOICE whereas being black or white is not a choice...
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Sorry, gotta disagree, most vehemently. We're not talking about being Presbyterian vs Methodist vs Southern Baptist, or even Roll Tide vs Go Vols. These are choices.

Being Jewish is probably more an ethnicity than anything else. Not a race, maybe, but very distinctive, and certainly very rarely a choice.

Wiki (yeah, I know, but it works for stuff like this): An ethnicity, or ethnic group, is a social group of people who identify with each other based on common ancestral, social, cultural, or national experience.

There are some people who convert to Judaism, but outside of those who marry Jews, it's really, really rare. You're generally born Jewish, grow up Jewish, remain Jewish even if you never darken the door of a temple after your Bar/Bat Mitzvah, and then you die Jewish (kvetching all the way, per my husband.) While a lot of it is very much cultural, it's also most definitely by lineage. Orthodox Judaism says you're not Jewish unless your mother was Jewish, so that's very much an acknowledgement that this is something with a hereditary component. While you can certainly convert to Judaism, good luck being accepted and fully assimilated, once again per my hubby.

You can be Jewish and not religious, Jewish and anti-Israel/ pro-Palestinian (consider how the most persecuted group in history could then return the favor to a different group; completely tragic IMO), Jewish and cook killer baby-back pork ribs and Cajun shrimp (yay for tref), Jewish and liberal or conservative or leftist or reactionary or don't-give-a-damn, and Jewish and always grateful on some level to mostly blend in with majority white America, but at some point, you'd better believe that whether it's because of your looks or your last name or something else, someone will peg you as Jewish and treat you differently than they would someone else.

Prejudice is a trait common in all humans, present from birth, and the ugliness finds many, many ways to express itself.
 
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In all honesty, I'd describe myself as more of a gangsta than a thug. Gucci Mayne and 50 cent are my main influences. They are two of the biggest names in gangsta/thug rap.
 
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Burger said:
AA's are well known for being bull hurt over anything because of Jesse Jackson and guys like him. If they knew how ignorant they were, they'd breakdown.

A thug is any color, any race. Justin Bieber is a thug!
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Justin Bieber is a spoiled little ***** boy not a thug. A thug is someone who would rob you, steal from you, or murder you. I don't believe Bieber would capable of these crimes since he is about 5-8 120 lbs.
 
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