Quit the racist shit!! It is always the same argument. If the first thing you think is "that guy must be black" when you here the word thug, and then you go and post on here, you are racist yourself. If people could get the idea that people are always assuming racism than this shit wouldn't happen. It has ruined another thread.
We are all domers no matter what color. Who Cares!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Thug
No mention of black or white? What? Huh?
I thought about posting about Thugees last night but it was late, it would take too long, what's the use ... Rep for you.
I stumbled across the origin of the word from the '88 movie, The Deceivers. It's from a Hindi, thag. The Thuggees were credited with killing and robbing 2 million people.
Thugs to me are Bill the butcher, The KKK, Al Capone, Dion O'Bannon, Hymie Weiss, Dutch Schultz, Lepke, The SS, Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) in On The Waterfront, Artie West ( Vic Morrow) in Blackboard Jungle, The Sharks and Jets, Hells Angels, Alex DeLarge (Malcolm Macdowell) in A Clockwork Orange, Rocky Balboa, the loanshark enforcer before he met Apollo Creed, Bumpy Gunn (Moses Gunn) in Shaft, Bloods, Crips and Latin Kings, Triads, Sammy the Bull Gravano, Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson) in The Departed among others.
It's amazing how since some ethnic singers identify themselves today as gangsta's, some of you think that thug must refer to a particular race.
The word has nothing to do with race or skin color unless you're stereotyping people from the Indian sub-continent.
Peoples around the world Irish Catholic, German Protestant, Jew, Hindi, Muslim (Assassins), English, Russian, Italian, Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese, Africans, et al, all have their share of thugs.
PC revisionists cost a guy his job a few years ago when he used the word "niggardly", which means stingy or miserly, about a city budget. He was forced to resign over the "perceived" insult to African Americans. The boneheads that made issue of the episode, even when made aware that niggardly comes from a Scandinavian word meaning stingy while the racial slur comes from the Latin word for black, still pressed on due to
their prejudices not due to any prejudice on the part of the one who used the word.
Some weeks back Waldo attacked Oglaigh over him nominating Darius Walker as the most articulate ND football player. Waldo accused him of being racist. Oglaigh was paying a compliment to an athlete who doesn't speak like most of his peers (football players) across the nation. He didn't marvel at the ability of Walker to put two complete sentences together, he praised him for his poise and delivery. Oglaigh didn't just say ariculate, he used the superlative, most articulate. The irony was that Waldo in pouncing showed his intolerance where none was offered by Oglaigh. Waldo likewise cited "concrete" proof for his ad hominem attack.
I don't agree with Oglaigh's characterization of Talley but to accuse him of racism shows the predujice of the accuser, not any by the accused. Your stereotyping, fleaflicker; not his.
it's obvious to most people that "thug" is a slang term for a lot of people in more predominantly African-American urban systems.
Nice glittering generality.
The fact that you have a limited comprehension of the word and ascribe it to one ethic group doesn't mean the rest of us are as myopic as you.
Best wishes to young Mr. Talley wherever he ends up. I'm saddened he's leaving. I'm saddened when any of these young men walk away from the 40 year decision whatever the reason.
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