Another day at the pool gone horribly wrong

saintfan
Thu, 25 Jun 2015 13:06:16 +0000

From post #101
“Thug for me has always meant the dumb muscle supporting criminal enterprises. Mafia thugs being a case in point.”

and from post #82
A thug is someone who beats someone up for money, or lives by beating people up. Like a “heavy” that a bookie has.

Which is interesting because where I hear it used most locally is to describe public school teachers and Boeing Machinists. Segments of the national media both mainstream and fringe have made it OK to call regular, wage earning people living amongst us (and in some cases with us ) a name that to many means the dumb muscle supporting criminal enterprises.