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Originally Posted by AcGold
Completely disagree about thug being racist. White guys can easily be a thug just as much as a black guy. Gangster, thug, criminal, hoodlum. Absolutely nothing to do with skin color. The eagerness to pin the racist label so quickly is political correctness taken too far.
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I think the issue with thug is that it has quickly become a dog whistle to people who, to put it gently, are sympathetic to a certain societal arrangement.
In the Brown / Wilson situation, certain voices started describing Brown as a "thug" because that helped impugn his character in the minds of many. He wasn't just a young black adult that was shot... he was a *thug* that got shot.