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Originally posted by Superbitch
Right I always think it's so ironic how these random girls come out of nowhere creating situations and accusing people of thinking that way when in reality they are the ones that think like that.
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No, and if you can read, you would see the quotations around "bad". I grew up in "the ghetto". I don't need to be educated on your poorly formed opinions. Fetishizing thugs/gangsters/whatever you label them stems from the same mentality as those who fetishize other minorities and ethnicities. It's a dumb trophy scenario you throw around to make your life more interesting and exciting, and here you all are talking about it, joking about how these guys aren't good for the long term, how they threatened to hit or kill you, how you came from a different background and don't know why you decided to hang with them, etc. You just don't understand that you are doing it.
Ask yourself this: Why do you label these men "gangsters" and "thugs" and not yourself? What separates you from them? What makes you so different that you wouldn't place the same label upon yourself? Is it because you didn't grow up in a low income community, or because you don't deal drugs? Is it because you are more "educated"? Exactly what makes them a gangster or thug besides the so called obvious?
That's it.