Omega Vision
Face Flowed Into Her Eyes
Originally posted by Time Immemorial
Actually you are the idiot because what I said was fact, and there is nothing to cover up. Omega was wrong, as are you now.
I stand by what I said. Not only was he wrong but he was corrected by others for being wrong.
I didn't realize at the time that the officers in question weren't white. That's my mistake, but it doesn't at all change my real gripe with your OP, which was the wording and the implicit racism of 'black thugs.'
Originally posted by Time Immemorial
Not only did he kill himself, but he also killed two cops, and the day before killed his girlfriend and unborn child. Quit defending him.
How am I defending him?
Originally posted by Shakyamunison
Dead, as soon as I can find him.A terrorist.
You need to get away from the bigots who surround you. Some of the worst thugs, in history were white.
But still, it's very rare that you hear the words "white thug" or "Caucasian thug" used in media. No one's saying that the word "thug" is inherently racist (it was coined after a group of roadside bandits in India who strangled people with yellow scarves), but the use of "black thug" suggests that "black" somehow modifies "thug" in some meaningful way and is a hallmark of racist or racially-charged reporting/discourse.
It's especially harmful because there's a stock character in early American culture known as the Black Brute, one of the five main plantation school stereotypes along with the coon, the mammy, the uncle tom, and the picaninny. "Black thug" is the modern iteration of this.
Edit: A better way to put it is that if you were to call him a "thug" I'd have no disagreement whatsoever. I'd add a few words to that, such as "madman" aand "lunatic." But when you add "black" to "thug," it suddenly becomes a very different statement. If you've ever been around two parents who are arguing about their kid with other people or between themselves, you may have noticed how they start using phrases like "our son," "our daughter," or "your son/your daughter." They do this because they're trying to either shift blame for something wrong with the kid on the other parent, or take credit for something they've done. It's the same thing with black thug. Even if the user of the phrase doesn't mean this, the effect is that it seems like it's somehow the fault of the black community that this "thug" did these things. It's no different than when a country like Iran catches a spy they call him a "Zionist spy" or an "Imperialist spy."
Edit2: And yes, this probably has a lot to do with Eric Garner, but then what do you take from that? What are you trying to say?