Use of the word "thug" has reached...thug-like levels!!

[stanley-88888888]

^ The word negro has been in the English language for a long time. Trying to make it racial is an act of desperation by the race baiters.

[Vector1]

Originally Posted by woxyroxme

Goon is more of a hockey term for guys who can't skate or score a goal but are just there to fight.

Exactly right, and thug is also used to describe them in hockey. There is a funny movie called Goon about such a player (real story) where his nickname is Doug the Thug. Here is a trailer, but be warned even the trailer has vulgar themes and salty adult language;


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3Wxar9b9F4

Originally Posted by seasick

Transparent? As in clearly bogus!

The Speak Police are present, watch what you say. You no longer have the right to describe someone as a thug, because of ludicrous attitudes trying to link it with race.

A thug is a thug. Any color. Thug is a very old word, and the leftists have now tried to make it a "dog whistle" pejorative.

I agree as the PC crowd live on division and the grievance industry. Liberals by their very nature are never satisfied with our country and are always looking to improve it based on their own warped ideals. They get into power by dividing then demonetizing others, so their half baked ideas have a chance to fail. Just like blacks are the only ones that can say the word n igger, I assume the PC police will want blacks to be the only ones who can say thug in the future as well. Trouble is, their efforts to make it a race specific word was a dealt a large blow when the black female mayor of Baltimore said it, along with our black president both said it. Or maybe they were using it as a pejorative?

[stanley-88888888]

good point above about the movie goon. maybe it is a city-data problem:

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[sheena12]

Originally Posted by NooYowkur81

Only brown folks get that label applied to them.

Actually, I am white and I have had the occasion to use the word to describe certain white police officers, in the past year.

We are living in very "thugy" times.

[thefragile]

Originally Posted by WaldoKitty

Blacks calling Blacks Thugs are a reality too.

And?

[PedroMartinez]

Originally Posted by thefragile

And?

They weren't doing it as a show of disdain for the activity, but as a cultural subset identity.

You have rappers promoting "thug life" as part of black culture and then when some white suburban kids listening to that music and associating the word "thug", that is appearing on album covers and tattooed on rap stars, with black people, you get all bent out of shape.

[ATG5]

Originally Posted by Army_Guy

Of course some people think the word thug refers to young blacks. After all, racists see racism everywhere they go and make constant accusations.

Myself, I prefer the word goons. It adds a little bit of comedy to it.

You're going to have to run that by me one more time.

Someone who accuses someone else of racism is a racist?

Huh?

[Glitterific]

Originally Posted by madison999

keyboard thugs

I see a lot of that around here. Maybe those trigger happy cops should take them out just as they do in reality.

[WaldoKitty]

According to Websters, "Thug" has been in used for 204 years.

[SVTLightning]

Originally Posted by WaldoKitty

According to Websters, "Thug" has been in used for 204 years.

And yet suddenly its a racist word lol