Is "Thug" an overused term with racial undertones?

Superfreak said:
Dearest Sun... perhaps you can explain how I was backpedaling?

I commented on her question. I stated quite clearly that a person can insert any word that has negative meaning and ask the same question. It effectively eliminates the use of any negative word if used in reference to the actions of a minority because cries of racism could follow.
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SUN DEVIL:

I have to interject an off-topic comment here. If SF calls you "dear" or "dearest" it's a sign you've really arrived. Welcome, you're on the "A" list now. :D
 
leaningright said:
You keep referring to looks... I haven't seen anyone refer to looks on here.

Take this guy

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And this guy

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Differences... Of course. Similarities ... Absolutely. Pigmentation, dreads, etc. Why would most prefer the second to be the face of their organization? Because he hasn't gone off on some rant that portrays the attitude that it is all about him or that he thinks less of someone else...in a hateful sounding manner. Looks have nothing to do with the feelings of many. What is said and done by the individual does.

Now, Mr. Sherman might be a really nice guy who just happened to have "gone off" while being caught up in the emotion of the situation, and I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. But at that point, at that time, his choice of words and body language was less than stellar.

He is a public figure who made a public statement and I as a private viewer have formed an opinion. I can tell you that race in no way plays into that opinion, but it doesn't matter. I can tell you that I view Ben Rothlisberger as being worse than a thug because of his treatment of women, but you can believe that or not. I make judgments and develop opinions about people in the public sector all the time and sometimes I even change those opinions. Chris Christie is a bully, Mitch McConnell is a whiny butt, Maxine Waters is a lunatic, etc. It's what I think at the moment.

I will say that I view (MY OPINION and doesn't count for much) this as just another push from some in society to try to make everything acceptable. It seems that so many don't want there to be a standard of behavior where something said or done is deemed as acceptable or unacceptable or right and wrong. Again, this is all just my opinion and it and a quarter will buy you a cup of coffee in my hometown store.
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I wish those complaining about the thug comment, would have had the same "understanding" when it came to Tim Tebow and his less then objectionable behavior, after TD's.
 
Superfreak said:
Translation: "I am going to go on a long rant about sexual harassment and racism in the workplace and pretend that means any word I deem racist/sexist in reality will get you guys fired if you say it"
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Did you see all the racist code words she used, to denigrate white males?
 
Gawd...how fucking dumb is USF huh? I know all you righties know he's a dumb fuck too, don't even think for a second you're fooling anyone. I wish one of you vicious bastards would at least take pity on the poor chimpanzee and teach him how to use a goddamned comma. True story - he has NEVER gotten it right. He always uses them where they're not supposed to be, and doesn't use them where they should be. It's amazing, because even the best writer in the world would get it wrong once in a while you know? But not USF, he has a 100% record - wrong every fucking time.

Dumbest poster on the board, past or present. Rivaled only by minkis123 on the old netscape boards. And if we had a secret ballot and everyone voted truthfully, he'd come out way on top of the long list of JPP dumbasses.
 
Darla said:
Gawd...how fucking dumb is USF huh? I know all you righties know he's a dumb fuck too, don't even think for a second you're fooling anyone. I wish one of you vicious bastards would at least take pity on the poor chimpanzee and teach him how to use a goddamned comma. True story - he has NEVER gotten it right. He always uses them where they're not supposed to be, and doesn't use them where they should be. It's amazing, because even the best writer in the world would get it wrong once in a while you know? But not USF, he has a 100% record - wrong every fucking time.
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I still have him on ignore, I can't waste my life on his stupidity! Lol
 
Superfreak said:
Which again is complete nonsense. Had a white NFL player done the same thing and people taken it out of context in the same manner... he too would have been labeled a thug. Again... for those that watched it live, I doubt many would have thought 'thug'. For those that watched it the next day... I can see how if taken out of the immediacy and out of context of what had gone on between crabtree and Sherman that Shermans behavior seemed thuggish. He was abrasive, abnoxious, self centered and he attacked a player on the opposing team that he had just beaten... that is enough to be called a thug. Regardless of his skin color. Again... YOU WANT to make it about race. Which is why you hear many on the left now telling us that the word 'thug' is 'code' for the n-word.

(even though the media and most people called Incognito a thug months before... so apparently this is one of those new code words)
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I would have loved to see the liberals use their "logic", when they were calling Zimmerman a stalker/murderer/racist/etc.
 
Hey Sun Devil, I thought of you when I saw this posted on Facebook. This made me laugh. Maybe Bieber is a thug, I don't know. I don't follow him. It seems if anything the guy is a wanna be thug but it's so hard to take him serious.


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He just needs to become irrelevant like the Jonas Brothers did, after guys like him came along. Hopefully the next dopey boy will come along, and he can start to find some semblance of normality.
 
Darla said:
Gawd...how fucking dumb is USF huh? I know all you righties know he's a dumb fuck too, don't even think for a second you're fooling anyone. I wish one of you vicious bastards would at least take pity on the poor chimpanzee and teach him how to use a goddamned comma. True story - he has NEVER gotten it right. He always uses them where they're not supposed to be, and doesn't use them where they should be. It's amazing, because even the best writer in the world would get it wrong once in a while you know? But not USF, he has a 100% record - wrong every fucking time.

Dumbest poster on the board, past or present. Rivaled only by minkis123 on the old netscape boards. And if we had a secret ballot and everyone voted truthfully, he'd come out way on top of the long list of JPP dumbasses.
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Not even close... Desh is by far the most ignorant poster... Though u are trying to catch up of late
 
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