Why on earth are we having a debate about the word “thugs”?
Isn’t that an utterly appropriate term for people who set police cars and buildings ablaze, loot burning stores and capitalize on an unfortunate death by destroying a community?
And given the seriousness of the issues raised by the Baltimore riots, how did this become a linguistic discussion?
President Obama complained about the “thugs” who rampaged in Baltimore after Freddie Gray’s death in police custody. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake complained about “thugs” as well—and was careful to spell out who she meant. She made a sharp distinction between those who protect peacefully “and the thugs who only want to incite violence and destroy our city.”
But the mayor, whose performance in this crisis might generously be described as erratic, took it back a day later.
“There are no thugs in Baltimore,” Rawlings-Blake declared. “Sometimes my own little anger translator gets the best of me.”
Non-anger translation: I took heat from the black community so I’m now disavowing my own words.
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5 comments:
Dictionary meaning of THUG: a violent person, especially a criminal. -- if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck...its a duck!!!! Those idiots running down the street with stolen / looted merchandise are thugs!
Yes, there are thugs everywhere. Of every color.
were the white students who set fires at colleges after sports events.called thugs
"were the white students who set fires at colleges after sports events.called thugs"
Yes. And I consider them a hell of a lot worse than that. But that's the big difference. Most whites recognize trash as trash - regardless of color. It seems that in SOME segments of the black community criminals get a pass simply because they share the same skin color. I think that might be called racism.
Another example of the dishonesty that exists in liberalism. They can't handle the truth because they have an inherent trait to constantly tell lies.
A thug is a thug and because it's the truth the liberals can't bring themselves to call them what they are.
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