“Thug”
seems now to be regarded, at least by many leftists, as a racially sensitive
term; on CNN (to give the most absurd example of this usage), Baltimore
Councilman Carl Stokes slandered critics of those persons who devastated much
of his city, by saying “No, we don't have to call them [the rioters, arsonists,
and looters] ‘thugs’. Just call them ‘Niggers’.” If “thug” comes to be viewed by the general
population as an equivalent for the noun “Black”, the demagoguery of Stokes and
others will backfire.
I’ll
conclude by noting that “thug” derives from a word for practitioners of “thugee”,
viz., ritual murder formerly committed for the appeasement of the Hindu goddess
Kali; if anyone ought to regard this word as an ethnic slur, therefore, it’s
not Blacks but Indians!