Teacher punished for using the T word

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(10-18-2017, 02:54 PM)Benton Wrote: Maybe I'm just living in a bubble... or I'm getting old... but I don't see thug as a racist term.

It's a term for referring to a violent criminal. We're going to run out of words if every single adjective becomes racist, sexist, etc.

A lot of this is actually derivative of Richard Sherman's rant in 2014 about the sorry ass receiver Michael Crabtree. I called him a douche when he did that.

Others called him a thug. 

https://deadspin.com/the-word-thug-was-uttered-625-times-on-tv-yesterday-1506098319

On TV, "thug" was mentioned 625 times, a HUUUUUUGGGGEEEEEEEEEE jump. 

An example is from the Boston area sports show, Dennis & Callahan:

>>he's a thug. some of these are hilarious. i got one in front of me that says "he can't be a thug, he got good grades."

>> sherm "sherman is a stanford educated player who started himself masters degree." stop me when i get to the part that refutes that he's a thug.
>> why is he a thug?
>> isn't it subjective?
>> why is he a thug?
>> because of his behavior.
>> define thug. he's never been arrested.
>> i'm not defining thug.
>> well, look it up.
>> they're not mutually exclusive. you can say he's a thug because of his behavior on the field and the way he acts, that's fine.


http://www.businessinsider.com/richard-sherman-thug-2014-1

Sherman commented on it, calling it a coded word that replaces the N-word.