The Unlikely Origins Of The Word "Thug"

[TreasonousBastard]

6. I've known about Thugee and the origin of the word...

for a long time. And it is true that words evolve.

But, as I started to say in another thread, words have another road to power.

In this case, as in quite a few others, outrage over the word became far more important than the act itself. The outrage over burning down a CVS was redirected to "How dare you call kids who burn down a CVS such a name?"

And we fell for it. Rather than doing the sensible thing and just keep calling white criminals thugs, as we had been occasionally doing all along, we just caved and let a few define the word for us and eliminate it from our vocabulary.

That's power.