To: rjsimmon
Thug comes from the Thuggee cult that was a brutal off shoot (involving strangulation) of Hinduism.
It originated in India.
10 posted on
02/24/2014 12:39:54 PM PST by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: MrEdd
Got that. I was speaking to the more colloquial use in the hip-hop genre.
11 posted on
02/24/2014 12:41:55 PM PST by
rjsimmon
(1-20-2013 The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: MrEdd
Thug comes from the Thuggee cult that was a brutal off shoot (involving strangulation) of Hinduism. It originated in India. So keep your Indophobia to yourself, Barkley. :-)
13 posted on
02/24/2014 12:43:36 PM PST by
KarlInOhio
(Republican amnesty supporters don't care whether their own homes are called mansions or haciendas.)
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
72 posted on
02/24/2014 1:46:14 PM PST by
dsrtsage
(One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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