Bipartisan Exercise

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(08-30-2016, 08:09 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Not just Black, but oppositional to authority, completely given over to street culture, no regard for human life black.

Let's get it right..

(08-30-2016, 10:05 PM)Rotobeast Wrote: We should just go ahead and ban all words that have any negative connotation, as they're just going to end up being used by racists.



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The use of thug is highly contextual. A black man saying to another black man "what up thug?" is completely different than a non-black person saying "a bunch of thugs out on the streets rioting and causing trouble." The first is used in friendly manner, where as the latter (one could argue) has strong racial undertones. Some even go as far as to say that "thug" is the new N-word. And depending on the context, I think that is a strong point.

To all posters in this thread, it is starting to devolve into something less that what I was hoping for so I'll ask you try your best to avoid partisan remarks and contribute to the discussion on hand. Otherwise I'll probably just ask the mods to delete the it.