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Originally posted by Mekitor
No is not?!? I am Latino and there are definitely Latinos Thugs as there are White Thugs. No race owns the word Thugs or Ratchet. So please don't apply this to one race. People are Thugs and are Ratchet and there is nothing racist about it.  |
You clearly don't even know what the term racialized means, why are you replying to me
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Originally posted by Goosey
Ratchet is, but ghetto also applies to certain Jewish communities and various places in Asia and Europe. Thug is not at all "racialized"  whenever I read old detective stories there are always "thugs", and they aren't black. A thug is a violent criminal-type person. The definition has never been a violent BLACK person!  that's absurd.
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Well considering this thread is about issues of American racism and American police brutality in America, I'm clearly discussing this in the context of America. I can't speak for any region outside of the US but ghetto and thug are definitely racialized here. This is the case with Blacks and Hispanics, not really whites or asians (or Natives, but I can't say that for sure).
Someone referring to a white man as ghetto doesn't mean it's not racialized. Racialization of a word has to do with its origins and the people to which these words are most applied to.
