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12793351, really?
Posted by Jon, Wed Apr-29-15 07:48 AM

>we have to call them something other than angry humans, they
>might get even more violent if we say nigger, let's replace it
>accordingly
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Uh no. N-word is an entirely different word with an entirely different collection of meanings that have nothing to do with whether a person is breaking shit, stealing shit, attacking ppl, burning shit. That's behavior is thuggery if any race does it.


>you feeling black folks have to be labeled negatively for
>fucking shit up (especially given our historic treatment) is
>sort of troubling
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I don't feel *blacks* *have to* be labeled. I feel its disingenuous to accuse people of meaning the n-word if they call a violent shop-raiding, resource-burning mob of people thugs.



>that bit about these "thugs" being human is contradicted by
>your need to label them "accurately"
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I don't NEED to, and that is demonstrze by the fact that I haven't. I'm making a point in here in defense of others who do choose to call them thugs. And there is no contradiction for people who can read the words I typed and not read shit I to it.


>I dont even want to know what you think the right response to
>Freddie Gray's murder should have been, I fear you'll
>reference MLK Jr.
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You agent paying attention then.