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Please Tim. Can you not use the "T" word again. It's very insensitive.According to a Baltimore city council member.
According to a Baltimore city council member.
What about "Cracker"? That seems to be a very acceptable and appropriate word by the media.According to a Baltimore city council member.
For some people, they say "thug" and for them that doesn't imply any description of what the "thug" in question looks like. For others, they say thug because they know they'd get in trouble if they used a more established epithet.
I'd be curious to see a breakdown of how often the term is used in coverage of rioting like L.A., Ferguson, Baltimore vs say...when hockey fans start burning things and flipping cars after a Stanley Cup win.
And detention at school is now "team time" and the naughty chair to the side is now the "safe seat". All of it makes me puke.
That would be an interesting stat.
I'm old and still use the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Thug: brutal ruffian, assassin.
Ex: "the Mob boss sent his thugs to collect from those slow to pay their debts."
I'd be curious to see a breakdown of how often the term is used in coverage of rioting like L.A., Ferguson, Baltimore vs say...when hockey fans start burning things and flipping cars after a Stanley Cup win.
Well if we're being apples to apples about it, I would need WAY more background on prominent cases where cops have killed white guys, if it was deemed necessary, and what ultimately happened to the cops as a result. A lot of the rage is the feeling that the cops are using excessive force and people are then making excuses for them. It's the lack of accountability.You should use an apples to apples comparison.
Oh wait, never mind, white people rarely if ever riot when a cop kills a white person.
Lite, we got a 9th hour when we p.o. a teacher.
When we goofed off in class, there was a high top stool placed in a corner, the offender had to sit in the "dunce chair with a cone shaped hat with the inscription "DUNCE".
I told you guys I was old!
According to a Baltimore city council member.
Well if we're being apples to apples about it, I would need WAY more background on prominent cases where cops have killed white guys, if it was deemed necessary, and what ultimately happened to the cops as a result. A lot of the rage is the feeling that the cops are using excessive force and people are then making excuses for them. It's the lack of accountability.
I saw one analysis of 2003-2009 stats where actually more white guys died "in custody" but I didn't dig super deep into it to be clear on what all the definitions were. If a homicide implied that the cops had killed the guy or if it would count if he got jumped in jail, etc.
TBH I couldn't name a white guy who was killed by the cops.
I'm not even that old. Yet. But when I was in third grade me and my buddies thought it would be a good idea, for some reason, after we got off the bus to run to the other side of the block, lay in the long grass, and throw rocks at the bus as it went by. I really can't remember exactly why we wanted to do that. I don't remember hating the bus.
Anyway, we executed the plan to perfection. Except we hadn't planned our escape which didn't materialize.
Next day at school, me and my 3 buddies were brought up to the front of the class at 9 AM. The principal came in with a board that had large holes drilled in it. I hadn't ever seen one before but it became real apparent real quick what was going to happen when buddy 1 was bent over and got 5 whacks on his ass with the board. I was number 3 in line out of the 4 of us.
And let me tell you something -- there's nothing quite like getting your behind beat, trying not to cry -- and failing -- in front of all your classmates to set you on the straight and narrow.
Suffice it to say that there was never a repeat of anything similar out of the 4 of us for a long, long while. Unlike the results obtained by the "enlightened" folks running the school district that my wife now teaches in.
Sure glad there isn't looting and burning of businesses every time a black person kills another black person or we wouldn't have a building standing.What makes it a prominent case? Your opinion, mine, local or national TV or is it when a black person is killed by a white cop (and not a white person killed by a black cop)? Or is it like Ferguon, where the cop was found guilty by the public but Missouri and the US have yet to file any charges? Or I should say to my knowledge. Matter of fact, the last I knew, he was cleared of any wrongdoing.
For me, death in custody is only part of the discussion.
What makes it a prominent case? Your opinion, mine, local or national TV or is it when a black person is killed by a white cop (and not a white person killed by a black cop)? Or is it like Ferguon, where the cop was found guilty by the public but Missouri and the US have yet to file any charges? Or I should say to my knowledge. Matter of fact, the last I knew, he was cleared of any wrongdoing.
For me, death in custody is only part of the discussion.
There are some people who do use "thug" as basically a code word to replace other words that aren't acceptable. It can and has been used in a racial way.
But "thug" is a perfectly acceptable word to use in the context of describing people in Baltimore who burned down buildings and looted shops. Those people are thugs based on the word in its common usage. It's a fine, descriptive and in this case accurate word.
This is how I see it as well. Context determines everything. Like 'thug', 'boy' shouldn't have any racial connotations either as a term...but there are some ways that it can be used that are very much racial in nature.
Starting to come out that these "thugs" rioted over some criminal that bashed his own head against the van killing himself.
If you're willing to buy that, I think this guy can get you a great deal on an iPhone, too.
Just going off what the medical examiner has given us so far. #PoliceLivesMatter
Wouldn't be the first time that's been BPD's story. This was my favorite line from the article:
"University of South Carolina professor Geoffrey Alpert, an expert in police force, said rough rides are also known as "screen tests." When police cars or vans had screens between the front and back seats, drivers would stop short — 'to avoid a dog' — sending a handcuffed prisoner flying face-first into the screen, he said.
'Cops used to laugh about it. That was big in the 1980s and 1990s,' Alpert said. 'It was obviously against policy and illegal. I remember in some trainings that police chiefs would say, 'You'd better bring the damn dog you were trying to avoid if you come in with a prisoner with such an injury.'"
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/29/1381184/-Freddie-Gray-only-the-latest-victim-of-Baltimore-s-rough-rides-in-police-vans