Not Going to Have "Thugs"? Wha?

#351
#351
SIAP, but I believe "thug" can be connected to race and be nothing like the N word. I see it as a description of the very high-profile negative extreme of black American culture. And some white people embrace, or aspire to, that lifestyle. Kind of the counterpart of redneck. Race-related, yes. Racist? I don't think so at all.
 
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#352
Romanowski is a thug. Henderson is a thug. Chmura is a thug. Hernandez is a thug. Greg Amsler was a thug. Zac Pillar is a thug. The Boz was a damn thug. Laimbeer is the biggest thug.

Later, racists.
 
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Spartacavolus said:
Romanowski is a thug. Henderson is a thug. Chmura is a thug. Hernandez is a thug. Greg Amsler was a thug. Zac Pillar is a thug. The Boz was a damn thug. Laimbeer is the biggest thug.

Later, racists.
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Sparty is a thug! Word up! Don't let him catch you in the cart barn; he will take away your lunch money.
 
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Insunseri said:
I used to play poker with him and hardegree...he wasn't a thug
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He got drunk and climbed thru an open window into a girl's bedroom at 3 in the morning. Not exactly a choir boy.

Little known trivia, when Jim Bob comes home to Lincoln Co........the sheep get mighty nervous.
 
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Dr Dread said:
There is a distinct difference in the meaning of some words, and the way they are used. Unfortunately, the term Thug has become more associated with black guys in hoodies selling drugs with there jeans hanging down to there thighs. IMO, a good deal of this comes from the way the hip hop community has so strongly imbraced the word. The result of this is the word is used way more often to decribe black people in a negative way, and often times for behavior that does not match the original meaning of the word. It has become code word for unruly black guy. To better illustrate this, try to find the last 10 white guys that have been referred to as thugs in the media.
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Here ya go: :hi:

White union thugs beat black man at Obamacare rally

White union thugs beat black man at Obamacare rally - Louisville CIty Hall | Examiner.com
 
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#361
#361
"The term characterized farmers having a red neck caused by sunburn from hours working in the fields. A citation from 1893 provides a definition as "poorer inhabitants of the rural districts...men who work in the field, as a matter of course, generally have their skin stained red and burnt by the sun, and especially is this true of the back of their necks".[10]"

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"The United Mine Workers of America (UMW) and rival miners' unions appropriated both the term redneck and its literal manifestation, the red bandana, in order to build multiracial unions of white, black, and immigrant miners in the strike-ridden coalfields of northern and central Appalachia between 1912 and 1936. The origin of redneck to mean "a union man" or "a striker" remains uncertain, but according to linguist David W. Maurer, the former definition of the word probably dates at least to the 1910s, if not earlier. The use of redneck to designate "a union member" was especially popular during the 1920s and 1930s in the coal-producing regions of southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and western Pennsylvania, where the word came to be specifically applied to a miner who belonged to a union."

Reading this I'd say if you use the term redneck you are racist (all definitions found used the word "white") and possibly anti manual laborers and anti-union.

Much longer history of racial stereotyping than the term thug. So word police beware!

If we keep this up no one will be allowed to speak, can AMSLAN be racist?
 
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