Trump insults black supporter, calls him a thug & throws him out

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28 minutes ago, Supersonic said:

Yikes, everyone knows that "thug" is just the white people codeword for "n****r".

Speak on it. Take notes sis @Gaga Monster

[Goosey 3,017]

Just now, PartySick said:

I can't wait for this crap to be over

The election will end, but the constant complaints won't. We already have "thanks Obama", next we'll have "thanks Trump/Hillary".

[Supersonic 49,376]

4 minutes ago, Goosey said:

Nonsense.

Whenever I read old detective stories there are always "thugs", and they aren't black. 

Aren't those stories from when white people were pretty loose with the n-word and had no reason to make up a codeword for it?

Hit me with better sh*t goosey-loosey, your womanly genitoilia is way too dehydrated to be riding my phallic member like this.

[ItsTommyBitch 12,640]

5 minutes ago, Goosey said:

The local radio announcer was talking about some "thugs" here who got drunk and assaulted some people, and guess what? We don't even have black people where I live. 

The term isn't racist, deal with it.

If you think so, than you probably don't know or are confused about what "racism" is or how it works,

Idk what else to say other than to again assert that it is indeed racist for many reasons... as several other participants in this thread have shown  

Dictionaries don't define culture, words don't exist in vacuums, meanings are malleable and prescriptivist language and beliefs are both restrictive and repressive  

OT:

As I and others have said, this man was not being violent, or appearing to be a criminal in any way, the term "thug" is inappropriate in this situation unless you consider the societal usage of the word, in other words, his only offense here was being black;  and using this word that means 'violent criminal" based on nothing but his appearance is literally textbook racism  

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10 minutes ago, Goosey said:

We don't even have black people where I live. 

 

Well that explains some things...

Wait, you don't have black people living in Canada?

 

[PartySick 172,426]

Google "thug".

I did and I got pictures of Tupac, tons of black men, and a few hispanic men. The only white guys were "thug life" fail memes.

"It isn't a racist term" ha. Try living here in the American South and see what "kind" of people are called "thugs".

@Gaga Monster I find it pretty useless to bring in that "Hillary paid the protesters" thing. It's irrelevant. This guy is (or hopefully was) a Trump supporter just trying to give the dude a letter. He wasn't being violent. And even if he was, in my opinion, the people who rise to an instigator are just as guilty as the one that started it. Even more so in some cases 'cause they know it's wrong but they do it anyway.

And don't pretend Trump doesn't feed into it himself. "I'll pay your legal fees", "back in the good old days, they'd be taken out on a stretcher, folks", "I'd like to punch him in the face". I don't understand how you or anyone else can defend him, regardless of whether you support him or not.

1 minute ago, YourSweet666 said:

 

Well that explains some things...

Wait, you don't have black people living in Canada?

 

I think only like 2.5% of people in Canada are black. That could be an outdated number though.

[Goosey 3,017]

2 minutes ago, YourSweet666 said:

Wait, you don't have black people living in Canada?

There are plenty, but not in my place. I hear "thug" all the time when there's some radio news of a fight, or a robbery, or whatever. And they aren't talking about black people.

Maybe it's racist in America in certain contexts, but it's not a racist word in general. Go look it up in the dictionary. Nothing about black people.

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44 minutes ago, Gaga Monster said:

Come on, how is it racist that he called a person a thug? He has many black supporters and his spokesperson is black, his best friend Ben Carson is black. The fact that this is even considered racist just blows my mind away. Read the full sentence it isnt racist at all.

I'm not racist my phone is black  

[BLACKOUTbritney 22,369]

16 minutes ago, Goosey said:

The local radio announcer was talking about some "thugs" here who got drunk and assaulted some people, and guess what? We don't even have black people where I live. 

The term isn't racist, deal with it.

A white person deciding what terms are offensive to people of colour while coming from a place where 'we don't even have black people'

Hmmm, very interesting...

[Edonis 28,974]

5 minutes ago, BLACKOUTbritney said:

A white person deciding what terms are offensive to people of colour while coming from a place where 'we don't even have black people'

Hmmm, very interesting...

I think he's middle eastern. 

But in terms of Canadian culture, he shouldn't be giving his opinion on words that are viewed as racially insensitive in the US. Thug is a racially insensitive word in the US at the end of the day. 

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47 minutes ago, Gaga Monster said:

That doesnt mean what he said was racist. Come on, be real, if you read the full sentence and take into account what the Project Veritas said about Clinton paying $1500 for people to protest, this is not racist at all. 

He assumed this black man was a protester.. A black man who happened to be a big fan of Trump...

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non-black people telling what's offensive or not to the black community   

[ItsTommyBitch 12,640]

6 minutes ago, FlopSlurper said:

I'm not racist my phone is black  

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8 minutes ago, Goosey said:

There are plenty, but not in my place. I hear "thug" all the time when there's some radio news of a fight, or a robbery, or whatever. And they aren't talking about black people.

Maybe it's racist in America in certain contexts, but it's not a racist word in general. Go look it up in the dictionary. Nothing about black people.

Well then exactly, your experience is NOT the american experience, where the word "thug" is incredibly racially charged against people of color, especially men; In this context and how it was used, it was incredibly racist. It doesn't have to be a word that's always racist in every context everywhere on earth to be racist and as I said before, Dictionaries don't capture culture and connotation, they are totally fallible.

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Just now, Edonis said:

I think he's middle eastern. 

But in terms of Canadian culture, he shouldn't be giving his opinion on words that are viewed as racially insensitive in the US. Thug is a racially insensitive word at the end of the day. 

Exactly. However, even here in Australia people are very aware of why words like 'thug' and 'ghetto' are offensive. People like those 2 users would be the first to cry offence if someone called them 'queer' or a 'fagg0t' but are unable to see how words like thug and ghetto are the equivalent to black people

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2 minutes ago, BLACKOUTbritney said:

Exactly. However, even here in Australia people are very aware of why words like 'thug' and 'ghetto' are offensive. People like those 2 users would be the first to cry offence if someone called them 'queer' or a 'fagg0t' but are unable to see how words like thug and ghetto are the equivalent to black people

Clock it. It's getting ridiculous at this point