When Sean Hannity uses the term “Thug” to refer to a black person, there is an EXPLOSION on social media. When a rapper uses the word Thug all it does is sell more records.
Why does social media explode for the first category and not the second?
Maybe the rapper isn’t using the term as a substitute for “black.” The word has a non-racial meaning that might work in a rap song. In fact, I think of Hannity as a bit of a thug.
When some white guy uses the word “nigger,” he is vilified. But when a rapper does it, all it does is sell more records. What’s up with that?
Not saying they’re equivalent in degree. But IMO “thug” is the same phenomenon writ small.
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Did Sean Hannity have killer beats spewing through the subwoofers when he said it?
White people behaving badly used to be called niggers on a regular basis by the more upstanding white members of society?
I did not know that.
Ok, let me be more specific, and BTW… I am normally on the “don’t use the word thug Sean Hannity!!!”… side of things…
But for the moment i am saying, yes, making racist comments is bad, but so is emulating a criminal lifestyle to impoverished people who look up to you… how come only the first causes social media to “blow up”
Could it be hypocrisy in the liberal media? Whoa, heavy info, Bob. K, tx, bye.
I was very interested to learn that the word thug is borrowed from Hindi/Urdu.
Somehow, I doubt that is what Tupac was referring too…
How the hell did thug become racial? It is a generic term for violent assholes not specific to one group. If anything it points to one small subset of violent Kali worshipers, not African Americans.
Thugs are the petty dumb criminals of all walks life and races. Enforcer types for the mafia and various mobs have been called thugs for a long time. When did this specific racial bit happen?
Well, that really wasn’t the focus of my question but it has been a debate in the “culture wars” for 2 or 3 years now, I think.
When people started using it to refer to Richard Sherman, who is not a violent criminal at all.
Why? Did he not rap in English?
I think you might be underestimating how muchmore intelligent Tupac was than his critics, and how thoroughly he outclassed them.
Oh, I really like Tupac, both as a Rapper and as a person. But seeing as he was the first mega popular “gangsta” rapper, I can’t help but be a bit critical of his legacy…
You don’t have to literally be a violent criminal to be a “thug” IMO.
Part of the definition of a thug, at least to me, is a propensity to use the tool of intimidation, physical or otherwise, to get what what you want or prevent others from doing what they want to do.
I barely follow sports, but I have no trouble imagining some atheletes where the label thug would probably be appropriate.
PS. I have no idea of Shermans thuggishness or lack of.
Right. Often, it’s enough to simply be black.
Thug means thug, as in a violent person. Except for those people who are trying to alter the English language to better suit their particular biases.
*THUG
noun [C]
› a man who acts violently, especially to commit a crime:
Some thugs smashed his windows.*
OTOH, social media is chock full of whiney assholes.
Then how come no one is calling Tom Brady a Thug?
This is silly and ridiculous.
Thug means anyone, of any race. I usually use it to mean any one who is sort of a bully lackey of someone else, the muscle behind them, but I also use it to mean anyone who is a criminal-type too.
To say it’s equated with talking about someone who is black is laughable and I’ll continue to use the word without worrying that someone will think me a racist.
Is Tom Brady thuggish?
I don’t know either way.
I do recall somebody I would probably call thug or at least thuggish. Who was that Baseball manager years back that REALLY used to get in players and the umpires faces?
Only reason I would call that thuggish rather than thug is that as nasty as it was, it was almost always a hollow threat on his part.
Lets imagine a sports figure that regularly seems to use the slightest excuse to start a fight with others on the field. And when he isn’t doing that, he is using the threat of doing so to try to intimidate others.
That the sports version of a thug.