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InVOLuntary said:
Only thugs I've ever known were all white. I've known a lot of blacks, non of which I'd consider thugs.
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Not everyone has same opportunities in life. Yes, its about choices. But there are some really effed up situations. Unfortunately it happens to every race creed color.
 
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I'm old enough to remember when "negro" was appropriate...as in United Negro College Fund...which ironically is still the legal name of that organization. And after that "colored" was appropriate...as in National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...which again, is still the legal name of that organization. Someone arbitrarily decided those terms were inappropriate. Not sure when "thug" became a black thing, but it seems that someone has yet again decided to redefine the language.
 
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I stand by my point that assuming someone is racist because they correctly use a word is stupid and reckless. With that said, I don't think it is so hard to try to be sensitive to others. If people are sensitive to a particular reference, it doesn't hurt to not make the reference.
 
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Orange_Crush said:
I stand by my point that assuming someone is racist because they correctly use a word is stupid and reckless. With that said, I don't think it is so hard to try to be sensitive to others. If people are sensitive to a particular reference, it doesn't hurt to not make the reference.
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While I agree with this to an extent, the constant effort by some to declare a word offensive and then tell everyone they shouldn't use it, completely misses the point that the word isn't the issue, the message and person behind it are. No matter how hard you try to eliminate offense by changing the language, you aren't and won't change the true source of offense, which is people.

As I mentioned before, I've lived long enough to see negro become colored, and colored become black, and black become African American, and eventually African American will become something else. Changing the language hasn't changed racism, and changing the term you use to refer to a group hasn't changed the heart of a single person.

What it does do is confuse the crap out of old people, and makes us look racist even when we aren't. Like thug...still trying to figure out when that became racially charged.
 
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