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Post #1099949

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yhwx
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Date created
19-Aug-2017, 9:32 PM

Warbler said:

Even within the contexts where it may carry a racial connotation, I don’t think it’s on par with the n-word. There is no unspoken rule that ‘thug’ shouldn’t be used negatively.

all I was saying is that the term has come to have some racial connotations,

how? why? who decides this?

This was already explained. I give up, since I’m not convinced that you aren’t intentionally missing the point.

I assure you, that is not case at all. Until today I had never of any racial connotations with the word thug(unless you are talking about it in a situation where a white person is calling a black person a thug, only because the person is black). I have seen many times the word thug used to describe a white guy.

I don’t think that ‘thug’ has racial connotations in all contexts, but I think it definitely does in some.

what contexts does it have racial connotations?

Look, Warbler, we can’t give you a whole encyclopedia on what words are to be used when and what connotations those words might have. Nobody can. We have to decide on our own what a person means using this thing called context. People know that this:

Glass is typically a transparent material.

means a different thing than this:

We should have more transparency and accountability in our government.

due to the context in the sentence. I think you learn this in school.

Also, I’m not sure why you seem so fixed on the issue of what the word “thug” means.