You all suffer from a condition called white male's burden. Any time a minority is tired of taking shit and stands up for themselves, you guys are appalled. Every one of you is a cakeating pussy. What bothers me is that you can't admit it. I find great amusement in conversations, so yes, I guess I am a troll because getting all of you to protect your bigotry and easy lives is fun for me.

WPR, last year when Richard Sherman went off with extreme passion, White conservative America was not using thug to call Sherman a thief, they were calling him the N word. All of you can take any bull shit tangent argument and shove it up your candy asses.

Originally Posted by: DakotaT 

You all suffer from a condition called white male's burden. Any time a minority is tired of taking shit and stands up for themselves, you guys are appalled. Every one of you is a cakeating pussy. What bothers me is that you can't admit it. I find great amusement in conversations, so yes, I guess I am a troll because getting all of you to protect your bigotry and easy lives is fun for me.

WPR, last year when Richard Sherman went off with extreme passion, White conservative America was not using thug to call Sherman a thief, they were calling him the N word. All of you can take any bull shit tangent argument and shove it up your candy asses.

Originally Posted by: DakotaT 

You all suffer from a condition called white male's burden. Any time a minority is tired of taking shit and stands up for themselves, you guys are appalled. Every one of you is a cakeating pussy. What bothers me is that you can't admit it. I find great amusement in conversations, so yes, I guess I am a troll because getting all of you to protect your bigotry and easy lives is fun for me.

WPR, last year when Richard Sherman went off with extreme passion, White conservative America was not using thug to call Sherman a thief, they were calling him the N word. All of you can take any bull shit tangent argument and shove it up your candy asses.

Originally Posted by: DakotaT 

Sit in your bitterness you petty little man. I have no hatred for any of mankind. I will still oppose wrongdoing be it a White man or a Black one or many other color or creed or whatever.

Originally Posted by: wpr 

Actually Troy has a point here.
I worked in a maximum security prison for 25 years so I have a little experience with this issue.

The prison population over those years hovered right around 70% black.
It was very common for black prisoners to call each other "nigger" or "thug" even back then and that was accepted by everyone in there.
However if one of us "crackers" or "pink ass bitches" uttered either word the grievances would be flying, possibly being investigated as using racial slurs.
So there is a racial history with the word "thug", just that most people who have not spent much time around a black community wouldn't relate it as such.

Originally Posted by: yooperfan 

So if we assume for a minute that what Dakota is saying true then what we have become is a nation that will allow a group of people to change what is deemed offensive at their will. Its as if we have a group of people who are so desperate to be offended so they can justify their behavior as a reaction to racism that when one offensive word used against them is very effectively removed from society (we can't even write or say the word nigger, we have to say "the N-Word) they have to come up with another one. Its not a race thing its a cultural thing and even a sub cultural thing at that. The only people who should be offended by being called thugs are thugs and then they shouldn't be offended because that is what they are. Its no different than calling rapists rapists or child molesters child molesters. We don't call people pedophiles pedophiles because of the color of their skin we call them pedophiles because the have sex with children.

If I am surrounded by a half a dozen scary looking black men, or white men or Hispanic men or Asian men or even a mixed race group of tough looking women who want to kill me and steal my money I'm probably not going to call them thugs to their faces but its not because I am afraid of offending them because of their race its because they are thugs and they will probably kill me and steal my money if I do. That is what thugs do.

I don't think there are many people of any race calling anyone who is an upstanding productive member of society a thug. Why not? Because they are not thugs. Hell, they probably don't even have to be all that upstanding or productive. In that case we may call them something else but it probably won't be a thug. This is because the word thug is not a racist word. Regardless of its origin it is a word that is used to describe a particular type of person, who behaves in a particular way and until now it has had a fairly specific meaning. I do think that it may have become an overused word and as such has lost a little of its meaning. Perhaps that is why this particular group has latched onto it as its new offensive term. It is easier to convince people that it is being used in a racist manner because the true definition has been clouded by over use. If this word becomes the new "nigger" its because the thugs have decided to make it so and we have allowed them to make it so out of fear of being labeled a racist.

Originally Posted by: sschind 

So if we assume for a minute that what Dakota is saying true then what we have become is a nation that will allow a group of people to change what is deemed offensive at their will.

Originally Posted by: sschind