Another day at the pool gone horribly wrong

hayden
Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:02:12 +0000

I think the first use of the word “thug” that people started noticing was when Trayvon Martin was killed. A lot of people on the Internet and especially on Fox News, referred to Martin, who as we remember had not been involved with wrongdoing before he was followed by Zimmerman, as a young thug. It became something to notice when none of those sources referred to whites as thugs. A similar thing happened in many other situations. For instance a riot by blacks was called a riot by a bunch of thugs. When white bikers rioted and people died, they weren’t called thugs.

The word is centuries old, but that doesn’t mean current usage by certain factions can’t change how they use it and what context they use it in.