Teacher punished for using the T word

[Johnny Cupcakes]

(10-23-2017, 12:04 PM)Vlad Wrote:  
He is certainly wrong by calling your sister in laws black boyfriend a thug.

When I think of a thug I think of those who without moral conscious commit physical harm or property damage against innocent people.

Don't think  "thugs"  apply to white drug traffickers dealing mainly in suburbia if that's what you're getting at.

I don't even think that drug trafficking should be a criminal offense (at least the kind of drug that he was dealing), so that's not how I'm moving with this.  I don't really think that he should be referring to either of them as a thug, because neither of them fit the classical description.  That's not the case though.

I could be wrong, but it seems that skin color is the determining factor for him. If not, why call the black guy a thug, but not the white guy?  Especially when the black guy is a seemingly upstanding citizen, and the white guy has a detailed criminal record.  I don't really see what the justification for the word use is.