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The Right's fixation w/'thug' or 'thuggery' labeling


Posted: Jun 10, 2012

I live in Chicago, on rightwing boards our politicians are called/referred to as 'Chicago thugs' or it's 'Chicago thuggery' 
We know that started only because it's the President's hometown.


Hannity: Union president’s call to vote was union thuggery By Andrew Jones
Saturday, June 9, 2012 18:20 EDT

Leave it to Fox News host Sean Hannity Friday evening to continue his network’s labeling of comments made last year by Teamsters union President Jimmy Hoffa Jr. to encourage union employees to vote in Wisconsin as union thuggery. 

Hoffa’s comments were edited by Fox News widely throughout last year as promoting violent action against Governor Scott Walker (R) and tea party folks when he said “let’s take these son of a bitches,” when in reality he was encouraging them to express their voices at the ballots. Hannity brought the subject up again due to the current election season. 

“Let’s take these SOBs out, take them out, war, is that type of rhetoric that you think we ought to be having when there’s honest disagreement about how to get $3.6 billion budget deficit in balance?” an angry Hannity asked guest Tamara Holder. “It’s a war? Trying to take people out? It’s a war? Those SOBs out? You support that?” 

"Thug" is the New N-Word 


The right-wing blogs and radio hosts have circled the wagons and spun into hysterical defense mode after real journalist Jim Rowen called out one of their lesser members for calling County Board Chairman Lee Holloway a "thug" last week. Rowen correctly pointed out the "race-baiting" use of the epithet and generally bemoaned the "heavily-racialized public debate that is endured here". In a follow-up, Rowen links to this helpful discussion of the modern use of "thug" to attack African-Americans from the Atlanta Constitution.

The talking-pointed responses from fellow-travelers of the offender – Steve Eggleston of No Runny Eggs – include predictabledenials of the intended racist use of the word, predictably-inflated episodes trying to establish that Holloway really is a thug, a hilarious linguistic review of the origin of the term (from a murderous "Hindu cult" in India) and blah de blah blah.

Rowen is right. "Thug" is the new N-Word, usually trotted out by right-wingers only in the context of African-Americans who are doing something they don’t want them to do. [Eggleston tries to provide cover for himself after the fact by presenting people like Hitler and Stalin as examples of "thugs", which again makes one wonder how Holloway got in that catagory.] Unapologetic racists like Mark Belling brag about using the term and dare others (usually politicians) to do the same. The last time we heard the "thug" blather was after the late-night RiverSplash violence earlier this summer. There was no doubt Belling and the others who are always there to capitalize on racial divisiveness were talking about black people causing the incident, although that fact was suspiciously missing from any straight news. In the deliberately race-baiting atmosphere of what passes for right-wing "thought", "thug" is shorthand for blacks behaving badly.

[By the way, whatever happened to the other "thuggery" that the right-wingers predicted was going to happen at free festivals all summer after RiverSplash? I seem to recall Bastille Days being particularly at risk, but it went off without a hitch (with a wonderfully diverse crowd, at that). To say the least, this is not the first dire prediction made by the right that didn’t come true; it also is not surprising that none of them bothered to note how peaceful the rest of the summer festivals have been.]

It is one thing for right-wingers to call out-of-control kids on the street "thugs" – unfortunately, Mayor Tom Barrett has taken up their divisive challenge to name-call – but it is quite another to insert "thug" as the middle name of a strong, African-American elected official who has proposed something (a tax increase) they don’t like. As they always do, afraid that they will fail on the merits of their arguments, they conduct ad hominem personal attacks and, where possible, throw a little racist sentiment in there to boot.

One thing I never understood is why right-wingers play these race-baiting games and then act offended when someone calls them on it. They should be proud of their clever divisiveness. They should stop hiding behind code words – after all, their favorite black guy just loves to use his self-hating license to use the N-word whenever he can. Come on, right-wingers! Stop hiding behind the skirts of your pretended outrage. Show us how race-neutral the term "thug" really is – show us what racist thugs you can truly be. 
Posted by Mike Plaisted at 7:58 AM

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I've heard about Chicago thugs in reference to politicians - way before Obama came aboard

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Can't tell you bout Sean Insanity. Can't stand his whiny attitude, so I won't address anything he said. I'm sure whatever it was he must have mentioned the name Ronald Reagan a few dozen times.

All I know is I have been hearing the term chicago thugs way way before Obama ever got to office. It has nothing to do with Obama.

And no, I'm sorry but it is not the new "N" word. I know people are trying to make this a race issue when it isn't. Mayor Daley is not black, nor is Blogovich, Rahm, or a bunch of others when referring to Chicago thugs or thuggery. People, show hosts, writers, or bloggers need to stop turning things into a racial issue and making up things that are not true. It takes away from the seriousness of the true race issues.

I've always heard it in context with unions - Zville MT

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and this goes back to when I lived around West Virginia - coal mining unions were heavy and the words thug and thuggary were used quite openly (and this was 30-some years ago). I'm pretty sure this had nothing to do with race and/or Obama.

West Va - Conservative

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Same thing here. I come from a very, very long line of coal miners and the term thug was, and still is, commonly used to refer to union bullies. A large portin of my family still lives in West Virginia, working in all aspects of coal mining, and they still use that term. Due to the crippling effects of Obama's policies on their livelihoods, they do use it to describe Obama and his group, too, along with ******* in front of it. LOL

LOL. Chicago is known for political THUGS. - Facts are facts. Live with it. nm

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nm

HUH? - goldie

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This is a joke, right?  Please tell me this race-obsessed Mike Plaisted and/or Andrew Jones (who is this guy?) is a comedian. 

Huh? goldie - Conservative

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This guy is so far out there, along with those that are so racist themselves, they think everyone else sees things only through the color of someone's skin. I think a lot of these pieces are only posted for the shock and awe the poster hopes to receive and really have not political value at all. Glad to see you back!

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