Post by omgzombies on Dec 23, 2014 11:29:14 GMT -5
I hadn't realized that thug was being used in this manner until the board brought it up, apparently I'm very out of touch (not that it was a word that was really in my vocabulary to begin with). To me thug was always what you called the rabble that stood outside of the high school and smoked and generally caused mischief when they were supposed to be in school. Someone who wanted to look like trouble, but really wasn't going to do anything all that horrific. And since I went to high school in the middle of Appalachia, in my head when I pictured a thug, it was generally a white kid. Thug, goon, delinquent were all pretty interchangeable to me.
Anyway, the point is, I want to thank the board for bringing it up, and keeping me from saying something that I now understand has huge racial implications. I now pay much more attention when people use the word, and you guys are absolutely right, 9 times out of 10 it's code.