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zH0mPfR
01/30/18 9:08:19 PM
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Is the word "thug" racist?



Exhibit A:

https://streamable.com/cj9tm

Kid acted like a thug. Ergo, he's a thug. Racism has nothing to do with it.
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josifrees
01/30/18 9:10:11 PM
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Man I really wish that little nerd was strong enough to flip the teachers desk
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josifrees
01/30/18 9:11:07 PM
#3:


Also thug is racist
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Fam_Fam
01/30/18 9:13:21 PM
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he was acting more like someone on the spectrum than a thug
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Aki_Narukami
01/30/18 9:15:05 PM
#5:


Thug isn't a racist word.

However, some racist people just use it to fill in for the N word.

Context is key.
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Deadpool_18
01/30/18 9:15:33 PM
#6:


Fuck em
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Funkydog
01/30/18 9:17:14 PM
#7:


Aki_Narukami posted...
Thug isn't a racist word.

However, some racist people just use it to fill in for the N word.

Context is key.

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Zodd3224
01/30/18 9:17:51 PM
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Funkydog posted...
Aki_Narukami posted...
Thug isn't a racist word.

However, some racist people just use it to fill in for the N word.

Context is key.

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masterpug53
01/30/18 11:07:17 PM
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I fight Bandit Thugs in Skyrim and plenty of them aren't Redguards.
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Zikten
01/30/18 11:28:54 PM
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thug comes from India. it's not an african word. and it has nothing to do with race. is Blizzard racist? in Durotar, in World of Warcraft you can fights mobs called "an Orc Thug"
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Funbazooka
01/30/18 11:30:54 PM
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Maybe rappers should stop glorifying thug lyfe
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Waluigi7
01/30/18 11:37:09 PM
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I've noticed that people who get upset that other people find it racist only ever use It to refer to black people.
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cjsdowg
01/30/18 11:38:20 PM
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It is racist and people fucking know it . The Threshold for a black person to be called a thug is just talking loud. Hell Obama was called a thug.
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Zikten
01/30/18 11:39:33 PM
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cjsdowg posted...
It is racist and people fucking know it . The Threshold for a black person to be called a thug is just talking loud. Hell Obama was called a thug.

not by me. I never called him a thug. a thug is a violent criminal not a person who talks loud. it comes from the Thuggee Cult in India. they used to attack people on the highways
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Funbazooka
01/30/18 11:40:48 PM
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Waluigi7 posted...
I've noticed that people who get upset that other people find it racist only ever use It to refer to black people.

It's more of the common vernacular spoken by black people when they refer to criminals. Whites refer to criminals as well... criminals.
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cjsdowg
01/30/18 11:42:41 PM
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Zikten posted...

not by me. I never called him a thug. a thug is a violent criminal not a person who talks loud. it comes from the Thuggee Cult in India. they used to attack people on the highways


What the word use to mean is not what it means now. Like I said before For black people that world is placed on them with ease. For example people have called Colin Kaepernick a thug. So a black guy protesting in a peaceful meaner is equated to the someone who robs people on the road.
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Zikten
01/30/18 11:43:32 PM
#17:


so then should Blizzard rename the "an Orc Thug" mob in their game? or should people protest against Blizzard?
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Ic3Bullet
01/30/18 11:44:08 PM
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I love how the fat(ter) kid just casually picks him up and places him elsewhere.
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Ic3Bullet
01/30/18 11:44:51 PM
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BTW a Thug is a misting who burns pewter.
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zH0mPfR
01/30/18 11:45:03 PM
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cjsdowg posted...
people have called Colin Kaepernick a thug.


Colon Krappernick isn't a thug. He's just a bitch.
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cjsdowg
01/30/18 11:45:50 PM
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zH0mPfR posted...

Colon Krappernick isn't a thug. He's just a b****.


why is he a bitch ?
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A_Good_Boy
01/30/18 11:45:58 PM
#22:


Zikten posted...
so

Pretty weird how consistently it seems that when a post starts with this word then it can be safely ignored.
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ZMythos
01/30/18 11:46:38 PM
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TC is tagged accordingly, so i didn't expect him to understand sociocultural context.
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Turbam
01/30/18 11:47:39 PM
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The fuck was his meltdown for?
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Zikten
01/30/18 11:48:19 PM
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I feel the same way about this as I do about the swastika. It's bullshit that people, mostly millenials, suddenly just get to decide what something means. whether it's a 10,000 year old peace symbol being turned into hate just cause of 10 years of bad use, 80 years ago..... or an Indian word that is about generic criminals of all races, being hijacked and claimed it's only for black people and that everyone needs to stop saying it cause it's racist now suddenly, cause we said so.
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Ic3Bullet
01/30/18 11:48:24 PM
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ZMythos posted...
TC is tagged accordingly, so i didn't expect him to understand sociocultural context.

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Zikten
01/30/18 11:49:08 PM
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if you truely think the word is racist, then you HAVE to protest against World of Warcraft. if you dont' you are full of shit .
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Aki_Narukami
01/30/18 11:49:45 PM
#29:


Zikten posted...
I feel the same way about this as I do about the swastika. It's bullshit that people, mostly millenials, suddenly just get to decide what something means. whether it's a 10,000 year old peace symbol being turned into hate just cause of 10 years of bad use, 80 years ago..... or an Indian word that is about generic criminals of all races, being hijacked and claimed it's only for black people and that everyone needs to stop saying it cause it's racist now suddenly, cause we said so.

why the fuck are you so angry
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ZMythos
01/30/18 11:50:45 PM
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Zikten posted...
I feel the same way about this as I do about the swastika. It's bullshit that people, mostly millenials, suddenly just get to decide what something means. whether it's a 10,000 year old peace symbol being turned into hate just cause of 10 years of bad use, 80 years ago..... or an Indian word that is about generic criminals of all races, being hijacked and claimed it's only for black people and that everyone needs to stop saying it cause it's racist now suddenly, cause we said so.

This is an actual post somebody made

Holy shit
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Waluigi7
01/30/18 11:51:03 PM
#31:


Zikten posted...
if you truely think the word is racist, then you HAVE to protest against World of Warcraft. if you dont' you are full of shit .

What is context
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A_Good_Boy
01/30/18 11:51:04 PM
#32:


Aki_Narukami posted...
Zikten posted...
I feel the same way about this as I do about the swastika. It's bullshit that people, mostly millenials, suddenly just get to decide what something means. whether it's a 10,000 year old peace symbol being turned into hate just cause of 10 years of bad use, 80 years ago..... or an Indian word that is about generic criminals of all races, being hijacked and claimed it's only for black people and that everyone needs to stop saying it cause it's racist now suddenly, cause we said so.

why the fuck are you so angry

Cause Millennials just decided that the swastika was racist, like completely out of the blue. Or something.
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Zikten
01/30/18 11:51:46 PM
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Waluigi7 posted...
Zikten posted...
if you truely think the word is racist, then you HAVE to protest against World of Warcraft. if you dont' you are full of shit .

What is context

if context matters than that means the word is not actually racist
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Aki_Narukami
01/30/18 11:52:28 PM
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Zikten posted...
Waluigi7 posted...
Zikten posted...
if you truely think the word is racist, then you HAVE to protest against World of Warcraft. if you dont' you are full of shit .

What is context

if context matters than that means the word is not actually racist

It's not, it's just used in a racist way.

You losing your shit on a dying video game message board is not healthy.
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Zikten
01/30/18 11:54:01 PM
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I just don;t like being called a racist simply because I refuse to change my definition of a word. to me, the people calling it racist are the real racists because their mind goes straight to black people, whereas I just treat a thug as a generic violent human. thugs can exist in all cultures and they in fact do
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Aki_Narukami
01/30/18 11:54:34 PM
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Zikten posted...
I just don;t like being called a racist simply because I refuse to change my definition of a word. to me, the people calling it racist are the real racists because their mind goes straight to black people, whereas I just treat a thug as a generic violent human. thugs can exist in all cultures and they in fact do

Has anyone called you racist in this thread?
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SkittyOnWailord
01/30/18 11:56:26 PM
#38:


Aki_Narukami posted...
Zikten posted...
Waluigi7 posted...
Zikten posted...
if you truely think the word is racist, then you HAVE to protest against World of Warcraft. if you dont' you are full of shit .

What is context

if context matters than that means the word is not actually racist

It's not, it's just used in a racist way.


So it's alright to use it in a non-racial way?
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Aki_Narukami
01/30/18 11:57:20 PM
#39:


SkittyOnWailord posted...
Aki_Narukami posted...
Zikten posted...
Waluigi7 posted...
Zikten posted...
if you truely think the word is racist, then you HAVE to protest against World of Warcraft. if you dont' you are full of shit .

What is context

if context matters than that means the word is not actually racist

It's not, it's just used in a racist way.


So it's alright to use it in a non-racial way?

Yeah, I would say so.
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A_Good_Boy
01/30/18 11:57:22 PM
#40:


Aki_Narukami posted...
Zikten posted...
I just don;t like being called a racist simply because I refuse to change my definition of a word. to me, the people calling it racist are the real racists because their mind goes straight to black people, whereas I just treat a thug as a generic violent human. thugs can exist in all cultures and they in fact do

Has anyone called you racist in this thread?

Nobody ever calls him a racist, yet for some reason he goes out of his way to act like he is now. It's like he's desperate to be seen as one.
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Zikten
01/30/18 11:57:44 PM
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Aki_Narukami posted...
Zikten posted...
I just don;t like being called a racist simply because I refuse to change my definition of a word. to me, the people calling it racist are the real racists because their mind goes straight to black people, whereas I just treat a thug as a generic violent human. thugs can exist in all cultures and they in fact do

Has anyone called you racist in this thread?

it's coming. it always does

also the thing is that I use it for all races but CE only pays attention when I say it for black thugs. I talk about other race thugs and everyone ignores it, and then when I talk about a black thug, people scream like it;s the first time I used the word.
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A_Good_Boy
01/30/18 11:58:11 PM
#42:


SkittyOnWailord posted...
So

Woah, it happened again.
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Zikten
01/30/18 11:58:22 PM
#43:


A_Good_Boy posted...
Nobody ever calls him a racist

are you kidding me? yes they do. both here and on potd people make snide comments about being a nazi or in the kkk. or not liking brown people. or any number of other things
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SkittyOnWailord
01/30/18 11:59:01 PM
#44:


A_Good_Boy posted...
SkittyOnWailord posted...
So

it

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Zikten
01/30/18 11:59:18 PM
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SkittyOnWailord posted...
A_Good_Boy posted...
SkittyOnWailord posted...
So

it

begins
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A_Good_Boy
01/31/18 12:00:22 AM
#46:


Zikten posted...
A_Good_Boy posted...
Nobody ever calls him a racist

are you kidding me? yes they do. both here and on potd people make snide comments about being a nazi or in the kkk. or not liking brown people. or any number of other things

Pretty weird how that sort of seems to happen to you so frequently. You think maybe there's an issue with how you communicate where you have to constantly preemptively deflect away accusations that you're a racist?
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SkittyOnWailord
01/31/18 12:00:29 AM
#47:


Zikten posted...
SkittyOnWailord posted...
A_Good_Boy posted...
SkittyOnWailord posted...
So

it

begins

again
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Aki_Narukami
01/31/18 12:00:42 AM
#48:


A_Good_Boy posted...
Zikten posted...
A_Good_Boy posted...
Nobody ever calls him a racist

are you kidding me? yes they do. both here and on potd people make snide comments about being a nazi or in the kkk. or not liking brown people. or any number of other things

Pretty weird how that sort of seems to happen to you so frequently. You think maybe there's an issue with how you communicate where you have to constantly preemptively deflect away accusations that you're a racist?

Yeah...
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Zikten
01/31/18 12:01:04 AM
#49:


A_Good_Boy posted...
You think maybe there's an issue with how you communicate where you have to constantly preemptively deflect away accusations that you're a racist?

yes. people don't know how to talk to autistic people.
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Zikten
01/31/18 12:02:14 AM
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and I don't know why you are treating it like a sin on my part. so maybe I don't know how to explain my thoughts well enough. that's a disability, and you are treating it like I committed a crime. you look down on me with contempt even when you admit the chance I am not racist.
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