The Racist Origins of the term “Thug”.

[dipsydoodle]

62. Yes

Conveys anyone who inflicts extreme violence regardless of whether they are black or white whatvever. Sometimes..........I recall a woman here in the UK knee capping another woman at the local shopping centre , using a a pick axe handle with a 6" nail driven though the end , one sunny Saturday afternoon, and yes she was white.

I suppose some of our football hooligans could so be described are too regardless of race or ethnic origin. Same applies to the whole of Europe.

I have no concept of the background to the current obsession of attempts to redifine words. I've never know the word to be used in a racist fashion and until recently don't recall the word being used here on DU over the past 7 years at all.