Charles Barkley: 'Thug,' 'Street Cred' New 'N-words'

Breitbart ^

[chessplayer]

NBA Hall of Famer and TNT commentator Charles Barkley said on Friday that he believes "thug" and "street cred" are racial slurs that are equivalent to the "N-word."

[RossA]

Exactly what qualifies this thug to replace the OED?

MSNBC?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

In other words, any word out of Whitey's mouth is racist, right Chucky?

[DocJhn]

Sometimes you have to call a spade a spade, Esp when playing Hearts!

[miserare]

Also in the old movie “Gunga Din”.

[Salamander]

Yup...until the Amish mafia comes for us.

:)

[Salamander]

Oh no!

And I use those words in casual conversations all the time!

/good grief

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Ah, yes. Blacks stealing more terms from everybody else for themselves.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

At least Barkley’s ethnocentric blather doesn’t have the force of law.

[Tigercap]

BS.
Thug describes an act or characteristic regardless of race. I’ll use it as long as it fits.

[GeronL]

yet

[pallis]

Thugs are thugs, union thugs, government thugs, mafia thugs, commie thugs, black thugs, and Amish thugs, are all thugs. People are welcome to say “T word,” if they are sensitive about the word thug.

[dsrtsage]

How long until the euphemism “teen” becomes a bad racist word. Actually teen kind of is a racist word now, but people haven’t yet caught on to it

[Beowulf9]

Ban all speech! Mime EVERYTHING! (It's okay to use gang signing). Prince was right!

[lurk]

Being offended by words is a sign of weakness. Weak, Chuck. Very weak.

[Zionist Conspirator]

And this man used to be a Republican, people.

BTW, "thug" is from the strangulation cult in India.

[grania]

Words are supposed to evolve. Civilized intelligent people should not be "word police" about what we can and cannot say. Even though they can use those words. The "n***** word" would have lost all of its bite if had been allowed to be overused.

Yeah, I'll agree with Barclay. When I say thug it implies black. If it's otherwise I'll say "white thug" or "hispanic thug" or whatever. So what. Around here, saying "east sider" is becoming a euphanism for you know who.

I'm fed up with it. The black community should stop trying to control our speech, and we should stop letting them do that. If they want to clean up their image, they should do something about the actions of the worst elements of their population and stop defending them.

If they'd stop this BS and stop supporting their rotten excuse for a culture, that's dominating ours, maybe we could all put our heads together and discuss the real problems facing the black and other underclass communities.

Before we become Venezuala or the Ukraine.

grrrr....end of this rant

[cqnc]

Turrible boots. =)

[12th_Monkey]

White basketball thugs I remember:

Bill Laimbeer

Greg Kite

I’m sure their are more, but these stick out in my mind.

[liberalh8ter]

I’m glad I could be of service ;-)

[liberalh8ter]

That falls under subservience which is of course, the goal.